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SUMMARY:Infrastructural affects and (contested) hydrocarbon futures in Bol
 ivia - Dr Penelope Anthias (Durham University)
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CONTACT:Dr Laszlo Cseke
DESCRIPTION:In the context of a protracted economic crisis caused by decli
 ning production in traditional gas fields\, the search for new fossil fuel
  reserves has been a strategic priority for Bolivia’s Movement Towards S
 ocialism government - and it will remain so following the left’s recent 
 electoral defeat. This paper draws on ethnographic research in the Tariqu
 ía National Reserve of Flora and Fauna (2019-2025) to explore the relatio
 nship between infrastructure\, space and affect as a key battleground in o
 ngoing conflicts over (post)extractivist futures in Bolivia. I begin by sc
 rutinising presentations by the Ministry of Hydrocarbons to reflect on how
  spatial representations of infrastructural containment and diffusion unde
 rgird neoextractivist citizenship. I then turn to struggles over infrastru
 cture unfolding within the Tariquía Reserve\, which is the site of three 
 new gas fields. I consider both the accidental affects produced by hydroca
 rbon infrastructures\, and how the state uses public infrastructure to (at
 tempt to) manage affects around extractive futures. Finally\, I highlight 
 how anti-extractivist movements\, led by rural women\, have sought to inte
 rvene in the relationship between infrastructure and affect - both through
  embodied practices of territorial defence that make visible infrastructur
 al violence\, and by forging relations with residents of traditional gas f
 ields\, which enable affects to circulate across extractive sites and proj
 ect cycles.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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