INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS AGAINST EXTRACTIVISM: LABOUR, AMBIVALENCES AND AGGRAVATION

18.09.2024
Zoom
15.00 - 17.00
This conversation comprises contributions from different areas exploited for coal or mineral mining, mostly in colonial contexts: South Africa; the Swedish part of Sápmi; the Américas; and Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. Building on intersectional feminisms, based on groundbreaking works such as Macarena Gómez-Barris’ Extractive Zone, we revisit different mining areas from the perspectives of women*, Indigenous people and workers, impacted by the appropriation of their lands or their work in the mining sector. We will focus on the situations and agencies of local people and seek (and hopefully provide) some footing amidst literally destabilized grounds of mining, aggravations of capitalist extraction, ecological devastation, and ongoing colonization by resisting extractivisms through our feminist approaches. In relation to artistic practices in various formats, we will tackle violent trans-corporealities, as well as emancipatory agencies.
Participants:
Bermet Borubaeva, public policy analyst, curator, and co-founder of Bishkek School of Contemporary Art, Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan
Lis-Mari Gurák Hjortfors, activist and ethnologist, Koskullskulle/Malmberget/Gällivare in the Swedish part of Sàpmi
Samantha Hargreaves, ecofeminist activist, active in WoMin, South Africa
Moderation / co-organization:
Karin Reisinger, researcher, architect, and curatorial practitioner, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna