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Programme
10:00 Registration
10:10 Welcome – Lorenzo Pellegrini (ISS, Erasmus University)
10:15 Marjo de Theje (VU University, CEDLA Amsterdam) “The persistence of conflict in Amazonian small scale gold mining”
10:45 Barbara Hogenboom (CEDLA Amsterdam) “Mineral Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America”
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Anthony Bebbington (Clark University) “Neo‐extractivism”
12.30 Discussion
13:15 Lunch
14:00 Daniel Chavez (Transnational Institute, TNI) “State‐Owned Enterprises in the Provision of Public Services and in Industrial Policy”
14:30 Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini (ISS, Erasmus University) “Nationalization of extractive industries in Bolivia and Ecuador”
15:00‐15:30 Discussion
Economic development within global capitalism is necessarily a conflictive and contradictory process – it produces ever new sets of winners and losers, unleashing tensions between growth and stability, dynamism and equity, and justice and sustainability.
The ongoing political economic experiment in Latin America, where state‐led developmentalism has come back accompanied also by strong environmentalist ambitions is a case in point. A set of far‐reaching political and constitutional changes, ranging from the election of Bolivia’s first indigenous president to the granting of rights to nature in Ecuador, have been enacted.
Yet, repression of environmentalists and indigenous actors who question the policies of the ‘new left’, expansion of the extractive industries into new sectors (e.g. mining in Ecuador) or new frontiers (e.g. Madidi park in Bolivia) have also been an integral component of the ‘revolutionary’ agendas of these ambitious leaders.
Are we witnessing the emergence of a new political economic system? How realistic is it to expect radical political change – post‐extractivism, adaption of ‘buen vivir’ as a new development paradigm, meaningful redistribution of wealth – from governments hemmed in by not just the vagaries of global capitalism but also (neo‐)liberal notions of citizenship, accountability an democratic governance? Are natural resources functional to new industrial policies?
The aim of this workshop is to engage with such questions by bringing together academics, activists and policy‐makers working on Latin American development politics and policy.
Seldom has a global conference been so devoid of positive expectations than the coming United Nations Climate Conference that will take place in Doha, Qatar, in late November and early December. In fact, people could be forgiven for thinking a joke was being played on them, given that the meeting is being held in Qatar, one of the world’s leading producers of oil, which is a key reason... Read more
El Dr. Edgardo Lander reflexionó sobre apostar por una modernidad que cuestione los patrones de conocimiento hasta ahora hegemónicos. Esta discución se generó en el marco del Seminario de Estudios de Pueblos Indios que por cuarta ocación celebró la Unidad de Apoyo a las Comunidades Indígenas de la Universidad de Guadalajara (UACI) los días 13 y 14 de noviembre en el Centro Universitario de... Read more
Presentación
La Fundación Rosa Luxemburg, conjuntamente con el Instituto Transnacional (TNI), Oilwatch, El Foro Social Mundial Temático Venezuela, el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños Rómulo Gallegos (CELARG) y la Comunidad de Trabajo de Investigaciones (COTRAIN) tenemos el gusto de invitarle a este Seminario Público Internacional.
Objetivos
Programa
Jueves 1 de noviembre
8:30 Palabras de bienvenida
Miriam Lang- Directora Fundación Rosa Luxemburg – Región Andina
9:00 Apertura del evento
Edgardo Lander-Sociólogo, integrante del equipo promotor del Foro Social Mundial Temático, Venezuela.
9:30 El Extractivismo y su resistencia en América Latina
Maristella Svampa – Investigadora CONICET; Profesora de la Universidad Nacional de la Plata; Novelista (Argentina)
9:40 Petróleo y rentismo en Venezuela
Asdrúbal Baptista – Banco Central de Venezuela, IESA (Venezuela)
10:20 Ronda de intervenciones y debate
12:30 RECESO
14:00 Oilwatch y las experiencias de las resistencias a la explotación de combustibles fósiles en el Sur global
Esperanza Martínez -Acción Ecológica, Oilwatch (Ecuador)
14:40 Los trabajadores petroleros colombianos. Su relación con las dimensiones ambientales/culturales de la explotación petrolera
Tatiana Roa Avendaño - Ambientalista (Colombia)
15:20 Las arenas bituminosas de Alberta
John Dillon – Kairos, Iniciativas de Justicia Ecuménica Canadiense (Canadá)
16:00 Ronda de intervenciones y debate
Viernes 2 de noviembre
08:30 La nueva geo estrategia energética a la luz de la convencionalización de los hidrocarburos
Mazhar Al Shereidah - Profesor Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela)
09:10 Alternativas energéticas al modelo dominante
Pablo Bertinat – Revista Energía y equidad (Argentina)
09:50 La transformación productiva en un país rentista: tensiones de la construcción socialista en Venezuela. Víctor Álvarez- Centro Internacional Miranda (Venezuela)
10:30 Ronda de intervenciones y debate
12:30 RECESO
14:00 El impacto social, político, cultural y ambiental de 100 años de petróleo. El lago de Maracaibo: ¿daño colateral? ¿área de sacrificio? ¿Hacia dónde vamos como sociedad? ¿Qué futuro queremos? Faja del Orinoco y Venezuela como Gran Potencia Petrolera. ¿Es posible una Venezuela post-petrolera?
Francisco Javier Velasco, Santiago Arconada Rodríguez, Emiliano Terán.
The 'Green Economy' was a concept presented by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in advance of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held earlier this year. It was presented as the solution to the climate crisis while also stimulating economic growth. The contents of the proposal focused primarily on the privatisation and commodification of nature. Otherwise known as 'natural capital accounting', the concept has been embraced by both government and big business in The Netherlands but has provoked a storm of cricitism internationally from many who see the proposal as exacerbating rather than ameliorating the factors driving the climate crisis.
To explain the controversy, TNI and Real World Economics have invited two well informed critics:
Edgardo Lander, a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Professor of Social Sciences at Universidad Central de Venezeula and Associate of the Miranda Centre in Caracas
Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies.
Moderated by Hilde van der Pas (Transnational Institute)
Entrance: 5 euros
