Global Humanities Institute 2023: Post-Extractivist Legacies and Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses
“Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes: Humanities, artistic and activist responses,” takes a humanities-centred, transdisciplinary, and transregional approach to analysing the complex legacies and entanglements arising from mining as an extractivist process with massive environmental and socio-political impacts. The longevity and adaptability of historical extractivist and colonialist logics underpin neo-extractivist development in all corners of the world and require, therefore, the kind of transdisciplinary critical response that our project forges. Drawing on methodological frameworks from anthropology, history, literary studies, environmental studies, bio-archaeology and activist art practice to investigate significant sites of extractivism in Ireland, Germany, Estonia, South Africa, Oceania and the Gulf Coast of the United States, the focus of our project is the comparative exploration of creative arts practices and local activism in the transition from mining to post-mining and in the mobilisation of opposition to new practices of extractivism.
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Led by the UCD Humanities Institute (PI: Professor Anne Fuchs, Co-Is: Dr Sarah Comyn, Dr Megan Kuster) this project involves a collaboration with the UCD Earth and Discovery Institutes (University College Dublin, Ireland), the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies (Tallinn University, Estonia), the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa), the School of Culture, History and Language (Australian National University) and the Humanities Research and Environmental Studies Centers (Rice University, U.S.A.), ‘Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes’ was selected by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) to lead a two-year Andrew W. Mellon-funded Global Humanities Institute (GHI) 2023.
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Global Racisms is a Global Humanities Institute (GHI) supported by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. CHCI is working to advance multiple forms of international, collaborative research designed to foster new knowledge and new networks; its members include humanities centers at colleges and universities, independent scholarly societies, research libraries, and other institutes of advanced study. CHCI launched the first Global Humanities Institute in 2017.
The project will develop through a pre, main and post-institute in 2023, each hosted by a different partner institution, with opportunities to participate online. The Institutes are scheduled to take place as follows:
- Pre-Institute – 28-30 April 2023 (hosted by Tallinn University, Estonia)
- Main Institute – 4-8 July 2023 (hosted by University College Dublin, Ireland)
- Programme available here
- Please contact megan.kuster@ucd.ie if you have any questions.
- Programme available here
- Post-Institute – 28-30 November 2023 (hosted by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Comprising three strands (‘methodologies’, ‘site studies’ and ‘creative responses’) and generating both artistic and academic outputs, our project draws on anthropology, history, literary studies, environmental studies, bio-archaeology and activist art practice to investigate former sites of mining in Ireland, Germany, Estonia, South Africa, Oceania and the Gulf Coast of the United States. The project focuses on a transnational exploration of creative arts practices and local activism in the transition from mining to post-mining.
If you are interested in knowing more please get in touch with us (humanities@ucd.ie; megan.kuster@ucd.ie; sarah.comyn@ucd.ie).
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