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03 Dec 2024 16:00

Waterscapes of Control: Technocracies from Extractivism to Sustainability

Aula A Ca’ Bottacin and online

Waterscapes of Control: Technocracies from Extractivism to Sustainability

3 December 2024, 4PM CET
Aula A Ca’ Bottacin and online 

Abstract: 
A pine tree monoculture and a marsh rich with rice fields lie at opposite ends of the Ebro River, the largest river basin in Spain. Between them stands the imposing Mequinenza Dam. An environmental history of these three waterscapes serves as the foundation for a critique of technocratic ecology. This history, which looks at how radical social transformations were enacted through landscape management, connects Francoist extractivism with contemporary sustainability practices by revealing their technocratic character.
A brief genealogy of sustainable development and its central concepts, such as nature conservation, climate change adaptation, or resilience, examines the role of sustainability and green capitalism in neocolonial extraction. Rather than drawing a conclusion, this lecture opens up further questions; about the role of policy frameworks such as the European Blue Deal or UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme; about the limits of sustainable development in shaping water ecologies globally.


Guillermo Collado Wilkins (KIM research group at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design)

Language

The event will be held in English

Organized by

NICHE, UNESCO Chair

Link

https://unive.zoom.us/j/83168718142?pwd=lnEYQR4hhq9LruWMymlZu91mVvVVwf.1

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