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SUMMARY:Pacification and the engineering of ‘green’ extraction in sout
 hern Madagascar - Dr Amber Huff\, Institute of Development Studies
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CONTACT:Rogelio Luque-Lora
DESCRIPTION:The Rio Tinto QIT-Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ilmenite mine in s
 outh-eastern Madagascar has triggered serious social\, environmental and l
 egal conflicts since the late 1990s. These relate to broken promises of em
 ployment\, disrupted livelihoods\, poor compensation for physical and econ
 omic displacement\, labor disputes\, destruction of rare wetland and litto
 ral rainforest ecologies\, water pollution\, and a ‘double land grab’ 
 for mining activities and biodiversity offsetting. Despite these conflicts
 \, the company stands by spectacular claims to be a responsible ‘green
 ’ self-regulator and sustainable development actor\, bringing conservati
 on benefits and ‘gifts’ of development to an impoverished region. To m
 ake sense of this dynamic\, this seminar explores the engineering of ‘su
 stainable’ mining in south-eastern Madagascar through the lens of ‘pac
 ification’\, conceptualized as a productive form of violence that works 
 through the disruption and re-ordering of nature and society to create the
  exclusionary forms and spaces of ‘security’\, ‘stability’ and eve
 n ‘sustainability’ that legitimize QMM’s continued claims to social 
 and environmental virtue.
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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