WINS Seminar on June 04, 2015 at 3pm (ct.), IRI THESys
Dear colleagues
We welcome you to the session of the WINS Seminar series (Seminar of the
Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems) on
June 04, 2015.
Dr. Erik Swyngedouw: Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in
Twentieth-Century Spain
Abstract:
The lecture explores the relationship between modernization,
socio-environmental change and the choreographies of social and political
power. The contested political-ecological process that marked the
transformation of Spain¹s hydro-social landscapes during the 20th century
and into the new century will be the entry through which a wider set of
issues will be explored. Modernization was and is a decidedly geographical
project and is expressed in and through the intense socio-environmental
transformation of Spain, both internally and in terms of its wider
geo-political relations. This transformation is one in which water and the
waterscape play a pivotal role. The broader intellectual objectives behind
the articulation of the transformation of Spain¹s hydro-social landscape
between 1898 and 2008 are: 1) to explore how diverse political projects,
social visions, ecological sensitivities, socio-cultural imaginaries,
discursive formations, institutional arrangements, economic interests and
strategies, and engineering technologies fuse together in particular
environmental practices and hydro-technical infrastructures; 2) to document
how human and non-human Œactants¹ become enrolled in this
historical-geographical process of multi-scalar assembling; 3) to analyze
the political ecological processes through which particular socio-technical
configurations come into being, are stabilized, transformed, and ultimately
replaced by other socio-technical assemblages; and 4) to tease out the
implications of this reading for contemporary environmental politics.
Bio:
ERIK SWYNGEDOUW is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. His
intellectual agenda has set the academic agenda in a range of fields,
including political-ecology, hydro-social conflict, urban governance and
urban movements, democracy and political power, and the politics of
globalisation. His was previously professor of geography at Oxford
University and held the Vincent Wright Chair at Sciences Po, Paris, 2014.
He has worked with international organizations worldwide. His work is cited
widely, both in geography and cognate disciplines. He has led major
international research projects funded by a range of national and
international organizations. He authored over 150 papers and several books.
He recently co-edited (with Japhy Willson) The Post-Political and its
Discontents: Spectres of Radical Politics Today (Edinburg University Press,
2014). His new book with MIT-Press, Liquid Power, will be published in April
2015.
As usual, the seminar will take place on:
Thursdays, 3pm (ct.)
Quartier Stadtmitte
Friedrichstr. 191
10117 Berlin
4th floor, room 4088
Map and room location
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visit:
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We are looking forward to inspiring presentations and productive exchanges.
The WINS Seminar team.
Ines Jeworski
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Life Sciences
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
Division of Resource Economics Hannoversche Str. 27
D-10099 Berlin
Tel. 0049 (30) 2093-46365
Fax: 0049 (30) 2093- 6497
E-mail: i.jeworski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.resource-economics.hu-berlin.de
