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On the surface - walking the warped temporalities of extractives landscape

Wed, Feb 26

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On the surface - walking the warped temporalities of extractives landscape
On the surface - walking the warped temporalities of extractives landscape

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Feb 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM GMT+1

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This talk begins as a methodological intervention into ethnographic research on extractivist landscapes. It learns from perspectives on knowledge production, especially the ethical postulate so as the research avoids following the resource extraction modes in relation to information obtained during a fieldwork. The case study I refer to is a tiny village of Opolno-Zdrój which for 70 years sits on the edge of Turów opencast lignite mine, and also on the Polish-Czech-German border. The village’s temporalities sit in a precarious gap between existence and non-existence - its territory belongs to the mine, yet the mine’s future is questioned. Practices of walking I could observe and become part of make us think across the political and discursive divide created by the opposing stance: the mine continuing until 2044 or not anymore. I will try to show how the environmental entanglements of village’s „non-existence” are vital contributors to the stories not told.

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