We've opened the call for papers for this year's edition of our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna, under the subject "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/
We've opened the call for papers for this year's edition of our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna, under the subject "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/
Mine de lithium de Manono : la firme de Bill Gates et Jeff Bezos se précipite au Congo – Libération
https://www.liberation.fr/international/afrique/mine-de-lithium-de-manono-la-firme-de-bill-gates-et-jeff-bezos-se-precipite-au-congo-20250728_K75CH7F2INGBVABLFGKZBNMEJ4/
“We have whole industries with business models built on the destruction of the natural world.” Dr Ken Henry
"Human treatment of the environment represents possibly the dumbest choice we have collectively made – and consistently been making for decades."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/protecting-the-environment-has-always-made-economic-sense-now-we-have-proof
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #ClimateBreakdown #extractivism #industry #destruction #mindsets #environment #IntergenerationalBastardry
The contradictions between vivir bien / Pachamamismo and extractivism / desarrollismo deepen in Bolivia over lithium.
Litio: Bolivia puede perder inversión millonaria y 6.000 empleos – NODAL
https://www.nodal.am/2025/07/litio-bolivia-puede-perder-inversion-millonaria-y-6-000-empleos/
Cartography of generative AI
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
@davevolek We should never forget that the modern #comfortism of the (Western) centers would never be possible without the #colonialRelationships that the #centers maintain with the #peripheries, nor without #extractivism. All of this will one day or another have to be called into #question. The least we could do "while waiting" for this or these days is to thoroughly rethink our #politics, or as I call it in reference to #Serres (the end of the city), our #cosmolitics.
Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part V: Coal Poisons the Environment and Fuels a Criminal Economy https://www.byteseu.com/1144248/ #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #CoalMining #extractivism #Herzegovina #Pollution #protest
Extractivist elites have mobilized the governments of #Canada, both federal and provincial, to adopt legislation and policy in favour of #mining, #FossilFuel and #forestry interests - in the name of nation-building and 'standing up' to #Trump.
Believe it at your peril. #FirstNations, #Climate and #environmental activists are not duped.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone
Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part IV: Majevica https://www.byteseu.com/1083026/ #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #extractivism #Herzegovina #LithiumMining #Resistance
On a tour of the #Africa Museum outside #Brussels -- one of the sites which administered the ultimate #colonial #extractivism and resonant today:
'Tshibwabwa’s masks and body costumes, assembled as ‘The Hidden Face of Coltan’, are a parody of early modern plate armour. Their martial character reminds us that the coltan in our phones is a blood mineral, which fuels the wars in the eastern DRC. As visitors reach for their phones to post photos of Tonga, the mask looks back sceptically.'
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'Tervuren was conceived as a showcase for the splendours of Leopold’s vast annex in Africa, but by the 1900s an international movement for ‘Congo reform’ was spreading word of European atrocities, especially those committed against the families of rubber tappers who fell short of their quotas.'
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'But Congolese researchers who would like to explore the archives for themselves … are held back from entry to the EU by stringent visa regimes. Digitisation … remains a slow project. How can a museum be decolonised if the descendants of colonised Congolese can’t gain access to its archives?’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/jeremy-harding/paths-to-restitution
Then: Plundering and polluting for profit on stolen land regardless of the human, social and environmental consequences.
Nowadays: BloodyHugeProfits, FMG, Gina Mineheart, RioStinko, Woodside
Another ongoing genocide in #WestPapua
Ryan Jessurun says: impressive documentary about the postcolonial history of West Papua in the cinemas soon. The rarely shown and beautifully coloured archive material alone is worth it.
#anthropology #colonialism #Extractivism #Papua
https://www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/the-promise-legt-nederlandse-kolonisatie-van-west-papoea-bloot/
NZ/ Aotearoa :100% pure and clean, green
New Zealand's unique #biodiversity is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $3bn by 2035
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/fast-track-to-where-the-new-law-opening-up-new-zealand-to-a-mining-boom
#newzealand #Aotearoa #biodiversity #conservation #wildlife #mining #extractivism #FossilFuels #laws
Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part II: Šipovo, Jezero, and Jajce https://www.byteseu.com/1030009/ #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #dams #EnvironmentalDestruction #extractivism #Herzegovina #Resistance
Wood for the trees, Jonathan Green, November 2023
https://www.themonthly.com.au/november-2023/essays/wood-trees
#biodiversity #ecosystems #NativeForests #IndigenousPeoples #wildlife #EPBCAct #SamuelReview #extractivism #degradation #LoggingIndustry #mining #harm
Queensland government cuts Environmental Defenders Office funding despite pre-election promise for support
"The service that we provide is sometimes inconvenient for powerful vested interests...There were countless examples of free legal advice the EDO had provided to individuals, landholders, First Nations groups and community groups to help them combat the interests of developers, mining companies and governments."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/environmental-defenders-office-funding-cut-queensland-government/105293462
https://www.edo.org.au/the-latest/
#environment #conservation #law #EDO #ToondahHarbour #PurlingBrookFalls #water #BottledWater #Santos #extractivism #VestedInterest
National Environmental Standards
Create new, legally enforceable national environmental standards to deliver better environmental protection or continue with the big quarry model this term?
"Nature doesn’t negotiate. Nature is a system of systems, and if we take too much from it those systems begin to break down – usually irreversibly."
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https://theconversation.com/its-a-hard-job-being-environment-minister-heres-an-insiders-view-of-the-key-challenges-facing-murray-watt-256465
Samuel Review
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/epbc-act-reform/standards
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #Biodiversity #Ecosystems #FirstNations #restoration #nature #extractivism #harm #LoggingImpacts #mining #water #extraction #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #destruction #governance
"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."
wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"
Remember the Urunga wetlands waste tailings rich in antimony, arsenic, lead and cyanide?
"For five years in the 1960s and 1970s, antimony and other heavy metals leached from an ore processing plant into the melaleuca wetlands. The wetlands used to open up into a moonscape of light grey sand with not a single bit of vegetation."
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https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-07/Urunga-Wetlands-fact-sheet.pdf
https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSD-5357%2120190227T035916.488%20GMT
Now they want to go for Wild Cattle Creek 'high-grade and high-tonnage' antimony-gold mining >>
https://www.listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-minerals-limited/news/acquisition-of-globally-significant-antimony-project-3091939.html
A Clarence Catchment Alliance community meeting
is being hosted by the Bellingen Environment Centre,
with Blicks River Guardians and Lock the Gate Nambucca,
from 2pm on Friday May 31 at 16 Cudgery St, Dorrigo.
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https://clarencevalleynews.com.au/clarence-catchment-alliance-community-meeting/
#NSW #Dorrigo #Urunga #remediation #CoffsHarbour #mining #antimony #gold #extractivism #harm #WildCattleCreek #WCC #water #contamination #wetlands #rivers #waterways #freshwater #MarineWater #platypus #biodiversity #BellingenShire