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EXTRACTIVISM Lecture Series 22/23: News from the "Resource Curse": On the Relationality of Unequal Development
02.02.2023 in Kassel: News from the "Resource Curse": On the Relationality of Unequal Development (Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
The "resource curse" is typically mentioned when a fatal, quasi-lawful connection between resource wealth and economic, political and social undesirable developments is claimed for the resource-rich countries of the global South. The other side of the coin, however, is usually left out of the discussion - namely, that the postulated connection would not even be conceivable without the hunger for resources of the rich industrial societies of the global North. It was not until the Ukraine war and the looming energy crisis that it became publicly known in our latitudes that the exorbitant - and especially in the context of the desired "energy turnaround" even further increasing - demand for raw materials of the central economies is the smooth-running, never stuttering engine of global distortions. The one constraint is the other's curse: anyone who wants to get to grips with the structural problems of a socio-ecological transformation must face up to the relationality of globally unequal modes of production, work and life.
From the series
Climate Change and Raw Materials: Risk or Opportunity?
Extractivism Lecture Series in the Winter Semester 2022/2023
It is already foreseeable that the global importance of raw materials will continue to increase in the coming years. Efforts to make the energy turnaround sustainable for the most part and thus to help shape climate change require that raw materials be given a special status. The desired energy turnaround for the purpose of sustainable climate policy will massively change the raw material basis of the world economy. This will not only mean deep transformation processes for the countries of the Global North, but will also have serious consequences for many countries of the South that depend on raw material exports. This challenges the existing structure of the international system and the global economy.
The lecture series will address this problem context and approach the issues first from the perspective of Latin America and the Maghreb. The contributions focus on the relationship between commodities and climate change from empirical, regional and/or theoretical perspectives. They will be linked by not only analyzing the risks of the relationship between commodities and climate change, but also illuminating possibilities and opportunities.
The lecture series will take place on Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. , alternating between Kassel and Marburg. To participate in the event online, you can register HERE.
27.10.2022 in Kassel: 500 years of interdependence between Latin America and Europe (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, University of Kassel)
03.11.2022 in Kassel: Amazon, Oil Reserves and Corporate Climate Management: A Brazilian Perspective on the Achievability of the Paris Climate Targets (Prof. Dr. Anita Engels, Thomas Frisch, Solange Commelin; University of Hamburg).
10.11.2022 in Marburg: Patrimonial Capitalism, Pensions and Development (Prof. Dr. Oliver Schlumberger, University of Tübingen)
17.11.2022 in Kassel: Geopolitics of the "Great Transformation" (Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer, Technical University Darmstadt)
24.11.2022 in Kassel: Petrolism in the Middle East (Prof. Dr. Martin Beck, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr)
01.12.2022 in Kassel: Supply Chain Laws and Certification of Resources (Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch, Freie Universität Berlin)
08.12.2022 in Marburg: Oil and Middle Classes in Iran (Prof. Dr. Mohammed Farzanegan, Philipps-Universität Marburg)
15.12.2022 in Kassel: Circular Economy, Raw Materials and Climate Change (Prof. Dr. Sina Leipold, Environmental Research Center Leipzig)
12.01.2023 in Marburg: Everything flows? The importance of water for the social contract in Morocco (Dr. Annabelle Houdret, German Development Institute, Bonn)
19.01.2023 in Kassel: Is Latin America too rich for development? (Dr. Hannes Warnecke-Berger / Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, University of Kassel)
26.01.2023 in Marburg: Climate change and perspectives of socio-ecological transformation (Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörre, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)
02.02.2023 in Kassel: News from the "resource curse": On the relationality of unequal development (Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
09.02.2022 in Marburg: 500 Years of Interdependence between Maghreb and Europe (Prof. Dr. Rachid Ouaissa, Philipps-Universität Marburg)