BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b55851a6a6d3b29ed557b6c706b63574 DTSTAMP:20260308T133855Z SUMMARY:Feminist perspectives on extractivism: South-South dialogue DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: martina_angela.caretta@keg.lu.se\n\n \;Panelists:& nbsp\;Hibist Kassa\, Policy Interface Fellow\, University of Leicester\, U KGrettel Navas\, Assistant Professor\, Political Science\, Universidad de Chile\, Santiago\, Chile \;Nteboheng Phakisi-Portas\, Researcher and c ommunity engagement officer at the Bench Marks Foundation \;Organizers : \;Martina Angela Caretta\, \;Associate Professor\, The Departmen t of Human Geography \, Lund UniversityVasna Ramasar\, Associate Professor \, The Department of Human Geography \, Lund University \;Discussants: Vasna RamasarYahia Mahmoud\, Senior Lecturer\, The Department of Human Geo graphy\, Lund UniversityIf you are attending and want to participate in th e fika – sign up here by October 30th \; \;Programme9.30 – 9.4 0 Welcome by Martina Angela Caretta \;9.40 – 10 Hibist Kassa: Social Reproduction\, Ecological Crisis\, and the State in Artisanal mining10 – 10.20 Grettel Navas: Whose Evidence Counts? Gendered Exclusions over P esticides Politics \;10.20 – 10.40 Nteboheng Phakisi-Portas: \;W omen in the Shadows: Survival\, Policing\, and Informal Economies in Johan nesburg’s Zama Zama Settlements  \;10.40 – 11 Coffee break \;1 1 – 11.15 Vasna Ramasar comments \;11.15 – 11.30 Yahia Mahmoud com ments11.30 – 11.45 Panelists respond \;11.45 – 12.25 Questions fro m the public \;12.25 – 12.30 Closing by Martina Angela Caretta \ ;Panelists biosHibist Kassa  \;is Policy Interface Fellow at the Insti tute for Environmental Futures\, University of Leicester. She is an associ ate editor with the Agrarian South Network Research Bulletin\, a tricontin ental network of researchers in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia. Hibist was awarded a doctorate in Sociology from University of Johannesburg. She has worked in feminist organizations\, networks and policy research instit utes in Africa and beyond for over a decade. She has a forthcoming book on Petty Commodity Production and Petty Capitalism in Artisanal and Small-Sc ale Mining: A Comparison of Ghana and South Africa. She has published on a cademic and popular platforms on artisanal mining policy\, land\, social r eproduction\, gender and the political economy of natural resources.Grette l Navas \;is a political ecologist working on environmental conflicts linked to toxic pesticide exposure in agrarian contexts. Her work also exa mines the role of environmental defenders in these conflicts\, the forms o f violence they face in their struggles and how environmental justice move ments shape environmental policies. She is an Assistant Professor in the D epartment of Political Studies at the School of Government\, University of Chile. She earned her PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from th e Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a Master’s degree in Soc io-Environmental Studies from FLACSO–Ecuador and a Bachelor’s degree i n International Relations from the National University of Costa Rica. She is an active member of the Latin American Political Ecology Group (CLACSO) and part of the coordination team of the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJA tlas)\, a global initiative documenting environmental conflicts and resist ance movements around the world.Nteboheng Phakisi- Portas \;is a resea rcher whose work explores the intersections of land\, livelihoods\, and ex tractive economies. She holds an MSc in Geography and Development from Pal acký University in the Czech Republic and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Cape Town\, South Africa. \;She is currently a researche r and community engagement officer at the Bench Marks Foundation. It is a faith-based organisation \;that monitors multinational corporations op erating in Southern Africa and the rest of the African continent to ensure that they meet minimum social\, environmental and economic standards.&nbs p\;She works closely with mining-affected communities\, both host communit ies facing environmental degradation and labour-sending regions shaped by South Africa’s migrant labour system. Her research and advocacy amplify community voices while challenging the disruptions extractivism causes to local knowledge systems\, livelihoods\, and ecologies.Talks abstractsSocia l Reproduction\, Ecological Crisis\, and the State in Artisanal mining&nbs p\;– Hibist KassaThis talk examines accumulation processes in artisanal mining\, focusing on petty commodity production and petty capitalism\, and its interaction with social reproduction. In this context\, social reprod uction compensates for the gaps left by the State and markets\, while bein g shaped by coercive mechanisms embedded in mining regulations\, social no rms\, and practices. These factors support the labour process in mineral e xtraction\, particularly enabling the super-exploitation of labour—inclu ding women's care work—and contributing to environmental degradation. Th e tension between social reproduction in artisanal mining and the environm ental destruction it accelerates stems from the pressure to maximize profi ts driven by capitalist accumulation\, large-scale mining operations\, and global market demand. \;Whose Evidence Counts? Gendered Exclusions ov er Pesticides Politics – Grettel NavasThis \; talk will examines how “undone science” — the absence or neglect of research on certain ha rms — shapes struggles for recognition and redress in cases of pesticide contamination. Focusing on banana plantation workers in Nicaragua exposed to dibromochloropropane (DBCP)\, it analyses how scientific evidence link ing the pesticide to male infertility became the central basis for claims\ , while women’s embodied experiences of illness\, miscarriages\, and lon g-term health effects were marginalized. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork\ , interviews\, and archival research\, the study highlights how the combin ation of scientific neglect and patriarchal dynamics within local workers ’ organisations excluded women as recognised victims. Their contribution s to sustaining the movement were acknowledged\, but their voices and need s remained sidelined in both legal and political arenas. The talk will dis cuss for the need of gender-sensitive epidemiological research\, legal fra meworks\, and mobilisation strategies that account for intersectional vuln erabilities in the increasingly chemical-based agrarian economies in parti cular in the economies from the Global SouthThe talk will be mostly based on this paper:If there's no evidence\, there's no victim’: undone scienc e and political organisation in marginalising women as victims of DBCP in NicaraguaWomen in the Shadows: Survival\, Policing\, and Informal Economie s in Johannesburg’s Zama Zama Settlements \;- Nteboheng Phakisi- Por tas \;This paper explores the intersecting vulnerabilities of women Za ma Zamas in Johannesburg’s transitional communities\, focusing on Jerusa lem as a case study. While much of the popular discourse on Zama Zamas cen tres on men\, women’s experiences remain under-researched\, particularly around issues of harassment\, sexual violence\, and their precarious posi tion within networks of policing and immigration control. These women navi gate a layered vulnerability: they are at once miners\, caregivers\, migra nts\, and targets of both state and community surveillance. Yet\, beyond v ulnerability\, they are also central to sustaining the informal economies that allow communities like Jerusalem to survive. The renting of shacks\, the circulation of money in local shops\, and the provision of household l abour and small-scale trade all hinge on the presence and participation of Zama Zamas\, many of them women. By situating women at the intersection o f gender\, migration\, policing\, and informal economies\, this paper reth inks transitional communities not simply as spaces of abandonment but as h ybrid economies where survival depends on precarious gendered labour.\n\nM er information om händelsen: https://calendar.prodwebb8.lu.se/evenemang/f eminist-perspectives-extractivism-south-south-dialogue DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20251106T083000 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20251106T113000 LOCATION:Sölvegatan 10\, Geocentrum I\, Room: Världen END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR