[Environment-readinggroup] Environment-readinggroup Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3

Niels ten Oever mail at nielstenoever.net
Thu Jan 18 14:27:16 CET 2024


Hi Aparna,

The readings and participation link are on the site. The rest is just reading and joining at the mentioned time :)

Best,

Niels

On 18-01-2024 14:21, Aparna Krishna wrote:
> Dear team,
> 
> I'm a little confused on how to participate in the reading group.
> 
> Could you please help me out with the process?
> 
> Thank you!
> -Aparna
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, 3:01 pm , <environment-readinggroup-request at criticalinfralab.net <mailto:environment-readinggroup-request at criticalinfralab.net>> wrote:
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>     Today's Topics:
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>         1. Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Achille Mbembe references (Janna Frenzel)
>         2. notes from 2024-01-16 (maxigas at criticalinfralab.net <mailto:maxigas at criticalinfralab.net>)
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:52:55 +0000
>     From: Janna Frenzel <jannafrenzel at posteo.net <mailto:jannafrenzel at posteo.net>>
>     To: Environment readinggroup
>              <environment-readinggroup at criticalinfralab.net <mailto:environment-readinggroup at criticalinfralab.net>>
>     Subject: [Environment-readinggroup] Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Achille
>              Mbembe references
>     Message-ID: <86d56d5466f0089aa17d3def3b01a4f0 at posteo.de <mailto:86d56d5466f0089aa17d3def3b01a4f0 at posteo.de>>
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>     Hi all,
> 
>     Here are the references to Ruth Wilson Gilmore's and Achille Mbembe's
>     work that I promised to send re: yesterday's discussion on structural
>     violence and disposability:
> 
>     "Premature death"
>     -- comes from Wilson Gilmore's 2007 book, "Golden Gulag: Prisons,
>     Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California [1]", where
>     she defines structural racism as "state-sanctioned or extralegal
>     production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to
>     premature death"
> 
>     "Necropolitics" by Mbembe
>     -- "sovereignty means the capacity to define who matters and who does
>     not, who is disposable and who is not" (from 2003 article [2] in the
>     section on "Necropower and Late Modern Colonial Occupation")
>     -- further elaborated in 2019 book [3]
> 
>     This also resonates with what Murrey and Mollett write in their article,
>     "Extraction is not a metaphor: Decolonial and Black Geographies against
>     the gendered and embodied violence of extractive logics [4]"
>     -- "Extractivisms, as enmeshed logic and material practice, preclude and
>     foreclose certain futures and foster a socio-economic context in which
>     people are compelled to buy into extractivism as the only possible
>     future. Political ecologists thus write about the attritional violence
>     of extraction, in which 'death-worlds' are created where people are
>     subject to physical and psychological threats of imminent death."
> 
>     See you at the next session,
>     Janna
> 
>     -- 
>     Janna Frenzel
>     jannafrenzel.com <http://jannafrenzel.com>
> 
> 
>     Links:
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>     [1] https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag <https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag>
>     [2]
>     https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/theoryfromthemargins/mbembe_22necropolitics22.pdf <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/theoryfromthemargins/mbembe_22necropolitics22.pdf>
>     [3] https://www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics <https://www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics>
>     [4] https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12610 <https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12610>
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>     Message: 2
>     Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:10:51 +0100
>     From: maxigas at criticalinfralab.net <mailto:maxigas at criticalinfralab.net>
>     To: environment-readinggroup at criticalinfralab.net <mailto:environment-readinggroup at criticalinfralab.net>
>     Subject: [Environment-readinggroup] notes from 2024-01-16
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>     hello,
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>     my notes from today are appended to the top of the pad here:
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>     https://pad.criticalinfralab.net/8k7xpcXNQWSlZfGH8iNpBw?edit <https://pad.criticalinfralab.net/8k7xpcXNQWSlZfGH8iNpBw?edit>
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>     and also attached to this message.
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>     in solidarity,
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Assistant Professor - Department of European Studies - University of Amsterdam

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