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SUMMARY:'Epistemologies of Soil' gloknos Symposium - Maarten Meijer (Unive
 rsity of Groningen)
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:*'Epistemologies of Soil' Symposium – 26 November 2021*\n\n*
 Abstract:*\nAs evidenced by discussions on soil degradation\, soil carbon 
 sequestration\, peak soil\, soil health\, soil care\, and soil art\, soils
  are very much on the menu in public life in the 21st century. Yet\, simul
 taneously this (re)turn to visibility of soils present us with a re-apprec
 iation of soils\, especially its living character and its interactions wit
 h the atmospheric carbon cycles (Puig de la Bellacasa 2019). Thus\, in tod
 ay’s context of planetary change and the social anxieties it generates\,
  the philosopher Bruno Latour argues\, “the very notion of soil is chang
 ing” (Latour 2018\, 4).\n\nWhat to make of this changing notion of soil\
 , and the return of soil as a public matter of concern? And\, if indeed th
 e notion of soil operational in today’s problematizations of it presuppo
 ses epistemological change\, what kind of soil epistemologies would enable
  us to give shape to more just eco-social futures? These questions are all
  the more pertinent in a context in which forms of life\, production and c
 onsumption are called into question by the intrusion of Gaia and the ongoi
 ng process of planetary negotiation that her intrusion instigates (Stenger
 s 2015).\n\nRecent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has f
 ormulated responses to these questions by critiquing dominant soil epistem
 ologies and discourses\, and exploring alternative conceptions and practic
 es of soils. In line with the former\, environmental historians\, politica
 l ecologists\, and eco-social geographers have explored how soil science h
 istorically has been and continues to be implicated in projects of racist\
 , colonialist\, and capitalist governance (Holleman 2018\; Sant 2018\; Eng
 el-di Mauro 2014). Additionally\, more anthropologically-oriented scholars
  have outlined more-than and different-than human soil epistemologies\, in
  order to decolonise soil discourses and open the conversation to a broade
 r range of soil epistemologies and practices (Salazar et al. 2020\; Krzywo
 szynska and Marchesi 2020\; Lyons 2020\, Engel-di Mauro 2014).\n\nThis sym
 posium seeks to stage a conversation between some of these complementary v
 oices in soil scholarship in the humanities and social sciences in order t
 o explore questions situated at the intersection of soil epistemologies\, 
 politics\, and planetary change.\n\n*Programme*\n14:00-14:30\nIntroduction
  by Maarten Meijer\, and a short presentation by Inanna Hamati-Ataya\n\n14
 :30-15:00\nMatteo de Donà _On the global soil governance in the Global So
 il Partnership_\n\n15:00-15:30\nGermain Meulemans _Engineering Soils in th
 e Re-making of Paris_\n\n15:30-16:00\nQuestions and audience discussion\n\
 n16:00-16:30\nSalvatore Engel-di Mauro _On eco-social soil epistemology_\n
 \n16:30-17:00\nNarciso Barrera-Bassols _On research and practice of ethnop
 edology_\n\n-Break-\n\n18:00-18:50\nFinal discussions and closing remarks\
 n\n\n*Organiser:*\nMaarten Meijer is a doctoral candidate at the Departmen
 t of International Relations at the University of Groningen. His doctoral 
 research focusses on the history of soil as an institution of geo-biopolit
 ical governance\, drawing on histories of infrastructure\, technology\, (s
 oil) sciences\, colonialism\, and fascism. More broadly\, he is interested
  in political and environmental thought\, cosmologies of the end\, and phi
 losophies of translation and diplomacy. \n\n\n*Attendance is free but spac
 es may be limited\, so please "email":mailto:sjp229@cam.ac.uk to reserve a
  space in the Zoom audience. Please be aware that we will take a recording
  of this event\, which may include any questions and responses delivered b
 y the audience.*\n\n*See the full programme of speakers online "here":http
 s://www.gloknos.ac.uk/research/activities/ideas-lab/epistemologies-of-soil
 *\n\n*gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Cou
 ncil through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for he
 r project ARTEFACT (2017-2022) ERC grant no. 724451.*
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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