Legal Geographies of Energy and Extraction 2: Minerals and Nonrenewables
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Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Directors Row H, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
Type: Paper,
Theme:
Curated Track: Legal Geography Specialty Group Curated Track
Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Energy and Environment Specialty Group, Legal Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Julia Sizek University of California, Berkeley
Alida Cantor Portland State University
Chair(s):
Alida Cantor Portland State University
Description:
From finding resources to accessing, extracting, refining, and selling them, resource extraction is always an emplaced process that is contingent on both the geophysical properties of a site and the legal geographies overlaying the place. In this session, we seek to emphasize the role that legal geographies– the coproduction of law and space, including the making of law, its contestation, and its jurisdictions– play in shaping geographies of extraction, resistance, and the circulation of resources.
As climate change intensifies, this paper session seeks to ask about the legal geographies of energy and extraction that have been so characteristic of this carbonified age, and explore the futures that might lie ahead. We seek to examine the legal geographies of the dynamics of extraction as well as resistance to extraction. How have laws, policies, and courts facilitated extraction and shaped the spaces in which it occurs? How have pushes for decarbonization or resistance to extraction succeeded (or not) legally? In what ways have decarbonization efforts in some regions shaped extraction in other regions?
In this session, papers will reveal the lawscapes of energy and mineral extraction, focusing on the ways that non-renewable resources fit into the law.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Carol Hunsberger, University of Western Ontario |
Constructing scale, eroding responsibility: the politics of scoping in Canadian oil and gas project reviews |
Caroline Griffith, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Before and After the Flood: Contested Mineral Rights to the Missouri Riverbed at Fort Berthold |
Owen Harrington, Pennsylvania State University |
Something in the Water?: Exploring Uncertainty and Knowledge Gaps around Drinking Water Contamination from Unconventional Oil and Gas Drilling Development |
Aaron Malone |
The creation of informality and the legal geographies of artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru |
Non-Presenting Participants
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| Discussant | James McCarthy |
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Legal Geographies of Energy and Extraction 2: Minerals and Nonrenewables
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Directors Row H, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
Contact the Primary Organizer
Julia Sizek University of California, Berkeley
jsizek@gmail.com
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