29. Juli
12.00 Uhr - 13.00 Uhr
Veranstalter:
Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
Ort:
Global South Studies Center (GSSC) - Seminarraum 3.03
Classen-Kappelmann-Straße 24
50931 Köln
Information:
Guest researcher Goutam Karmakar ( University of Hyderabad, India) will hold a lecture on "Crude realities: Infrastructural violence, epistemic injustice and extractive necropolitics in Nigeria". In this era of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene, infrastructure serves as a primary conduit for state machinery, functioning as a locus where politics, policy, planning, and implementation intersect with neocolonial and developmental initiatives. Taking these dimensions of infrastructure into critical African geographies, the talk focuses exclusively on the extraction of oil in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria, different modes of production and distribution, as well as the resultant environmental toxicity due to the extractive industries in the region. The talk further sheds light on how communities living in this region are subjected to double infrastructural violence that results in environmental and epistemic injustice, showcasing the crude realities of (non)governmentality and the politically entangled dynamics of capital accumulation. Concurrently, the talk highlights how the extractive practices in this region are very much necropolitical in nature, perceiving human lives as waste and disposable ones and consistently posing existential threats, thereby necessitating the importance of decolonial repair.