ESR8 HannahPorada From place-based resistance against extractivism to translocal env.just. struggles

The ninth lecture of the NEWAVE The Next Wave of Water Governance Diffused Conference is ESR8 Hannah Porada's revolving around Water and Mining.
Abstract
This seminar will explore the extractive transformations of territories and related resistance struggles across the Netherlands and Guatemala. Departing from a political ecology perspective and empirically grounded in her ongoing PhD research, Hannah Porada will explore the cases of gas extraction in Groningen, The Netherlands, and the mining of construction materials in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. How have extractive industries and their mining interventions transformed these territories? Why and how do affected populations and social movements contest these interventions, resist extractivism and defend their territories? Beyond the place-based perspective on the territorial struggles, Hannah will also reflect on the idea of translocal justice bridges: How can translocal, cross-cultural and multi-scalar bridges be built across the place-based struggles against extractivism in The Netherlands and Guatemala? How can bridging support the territorial defense and resistance movements? What challenges and risk come with the building of translocal justice bridges? What reflections does bridging generate in terms of positionality and ethics? This seminar starts to address these questions and hopes to provide food for future discussion.
Biography
Hannah Porada is currently a PhD researcher based at the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests relate to critical geography, political ecology, environmental justice, water governance, and social movements' struggles against extractivism. Her PhD research explores the impacts of extractive industries, struggles over territory and for environmental justice, and opportunities for and challenges of translocal, cross-cultural, action-research alliance bridge building across the Netherlands (gas extraction) and Guatemala (mining of construction materials). Hannah has previously conducted research in the German brown coal areas close to her own home.
She will be joined by Dr. Jeroen Vos, Dr Nienke Busscher and Guadalupe García Prado.