Transition extractivism and post-fossil coalitions

Programme

Introduction
Luigi Pellizzoni | Scuola Normale Superiore

Keynote speeches

Chair: Emanuele Leonardi | University of Bologna
Anne Tittor | Johannes Kepler University Linz:
Post-fossil extractivism and uncertain energy futures: between renewable expansion, greenlash, and recarbonization

Discussants
Maura Benegiamo | University of Pisa
Alessandra Corrado | University of Calabria

Keir Milburn | Abundance Action-Research Think Tank
What is Radical Abundance and how do we get there?
 

Discussants
Donatella Gasparro | Scuola Normale Superiore
Onofrio Romano | Roma Tre University

General discussion

26 November, 9:00-13:00

Round table

Session I: (Post-)extractivist trajectories

Chair: Riccardo Emilio Chesta | Scuola Normale Superiore

Pietro Autorino | Scuola Normale Superiore
On emergent food futurities: between soil-utionism and post-soil
Emilio Cocco | University of Teramo
Rhetoric of sacrifice or sacred ecology? More-than-wet ontologies, blue extractivism, and post-fossil coalitions
 Mauro Conti | University of Calabria
The AI-energy nexus as post-fossil extractivism: hegemonic decomposition and the prospects for coalition-building
 Lucia Groe | University of Calabria
Beyond the Green Transition: reconceptualizing sustainability through indigenous knowledge and emotional landscapes
Ludovica Moro and Alvise Mattozzi | Turin Polytechnic University
Internal extractivism: the tangible transition of critical raw materials in Europe and Italy

Session II: Extractivism, labour and class

Chair: Luigi Doria | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Łukasz Bat | Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
The struggle about class in the ruins of deindustrialization
 Alex Beresford and Ruth Bookbinder | University of Leeds
Reimaging labour’s role in the energy transition: the possibilities for a ‘productive delay’ to reinvigorate climate action in South Africa
 Elisa Greco | Editor, Review of African Political Economy
Green grabs in Africa: a class-theoretical perspective
 Fabio Locci | Scuola Normale Superiore
Counter-hegemony taken seriously: some insights from labour struggles in the mining sector in Türkiye
 Matteo Lupoli | University of Bologna and Giada Coleandro | University of Bolzano
Vertical or Horizontal? Looking for post-fossil alliances in different energy transition scenarios

IMG: Ben Carless on Unsplash