Program Summer School 2016 20160901

International Summer School
“Political Ecology and the Spatial Turn – from ‘Living Spaces’ to
Global Understanding”
September 1-10, 2016
– Program –
2016-09-01
Wednesday, August 31
Participantarrival
Thursday, September 1
11:00–12:00
RegistrationofDAAD-sponsoredparticipants(UniversityMain
Building,Fürstengraben1)
15:30–16:00
Opening(SenateHall,UniversityMainBuilding)
Addressesby:
BennoWerlen(HeadoftheSocialGeographyDepartment)
UweCantner(Vice-PresidentoftheUniversityofJena)
ClaudiaHillinger(HeadoftheInternationalOffice)
ClaudiaHammerschmidt(LeaderofthePatagoniaProject)
16:00–17:30
Lectureanddiscussion(SenateHall,UniversityMainBuilding)
GlobalUnderstandingandGlobalSustainability BennoWerlen(FSU,Jena)
18:00 Every day we all experience how globalization has brought and is bringing farflung places and people into ever-closer contact. New kinds of supra-national
communitiesareemergingatanacceleratingpace.Atthesametime,thesetrends
donoteffacethelocal.Globalizationisalsoassociatedwithamarkedre-affirmation of cities and regions as distinctive forums of human action. All human
actionsremain,inonewayoranother,regionallyandlocallycontextualized.
Theconceptofglobalunderstandingaddressesthewaysinwhichweinhabitan
increasingly globalized world. Everyday geography-making is essential for the
constitution of geographical realities. Our world faces social, cultural, and
economicchange,aswellasachangingclimate.Humanactionsplayakeyrolein
creating such worldwide challenges. However, human actions also provide
solutions.Ifindividualsknowwhattheirday-to-dayroutinesmeanfortheplanet,
theycantakeappropriateactiontohelpovercomeglobalchallenges.
Thisapproachiscurrentlypromotedbythe“InternationalYearofGlobalUnderstanding”(IYGU).IYGUwantssustainablechangethatstartsfromthebottomand
thus focuses on essential daily activities such as eating, drinking, housing,
working, travelling, and communicating. Why do we make the choices that we
do?Whichsocietiesmakemoregloballysustainablechoices?Naturalandsocial
scientistswilljointlyprovideanswers.Ultimately,theIYGUencourageseveryone
tomakedailydecisionsinthelightofglobalchallenges.
Get-togetherBarbeque(VolksparkOberaue/Rasenmühleninsel)
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Friday, September 2
9:00–10:30 Lectureanddiscussion(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
(Neo)extractivismoenAmericaLatina–unmodeloeconómicoysus
ambivalencias:ElcasodeBolivia
(Neo)ExtraktivismusinLateinamerika:DieAmbivalenzeneines
ökonomischenWachstumsmodellsamBeispielsBoliviens
JohannaSittel(FSU,Jena)
Despuésdelaeraneoliberalapartirde2003enAméricaLatinanuevosgobiernos del medio-izquierda persiguieron un modelo económico que se describe
comúnmente como “neo-extractivismo” basandose en una reprimarización
económica.Estepatróndeacumulaciónextractivatambiénpuedeservistocomo
un modo de desarrollo hacia afuera propio de países exportadores, especialmente de materias primas. Pero los países particulares en América Latina
expresan formas muy distintas y efectos muy ambivalentes de este supuesto
modelo económico que según muchos autores simplemente reproduzca o
aumentaladependenciaeconómicaestructuraldelmercadomundial.
BajodelgobiernodeEvoMorales(apartirde2006)Boliviarepresentauncaso
radical-reformistadelaoladegobiernosdelmedio-izquierdaenAméricaLatina
con una orientación neo-extractiva progresista. Bolivia está conocido como un
caso particular porque la estrategia principal del gobierno Morales fue
explícitamenteladescolonizaciónyasílarupturadefinitivaconlasdependencias
coloniales.Laprimeravezsereconocieronlosderechosindígenasyprometieron
profundamentesuinclusiónsocialyparticipacióndemocráticayunaredistribucióneconómicoenfavordesimismas.Estaredistribuciónylasreformassocialesadecuadas,locualresultaronentreotrosenunareduccióndepobreza,están
basadasenactividadesneo-extractivasquesiguencentradoenlaexportaciónde
materiasprimas,perorecuperaronlosderechosdesoberaníasobrelosrecursos
naturales,sobretodopetróleoygas.Bolivianoúnicamentepersiguióunrumbo
simplemente neo-extractiva, sino uno mucho más complejo y diversificado.
Apartedelaextracciónderecursosnaturalesseesforzaronenimplementaruna
industrializacióndelaeconomíanacional.Aunquelosresultadosdeesapolítica
económica todavía no se reflejan claramente en las estadísticas, sobre todo por
unasdeficienciaspersistentes,yasepuedendiagnosticarprimerosavances.
ElcasodeBoliviadescubreciertasambivalenciasdelsupuestomodeloeconómico(neo-)extractivoysurealizaciónquetambiénsereflejanenfuertesconflictos
sociales.Demostrarunasdeesasambivalenciasdelneo-extractivismoenAmérica Latina es objetivo de mi presentación. Después de una introducción sobre el
temadel(neo-)extractivismoyunbreveresumendelasituaciónenlosdiferentespaísesLatinoamericanosexpongocomocasoparticulareldesarrollobajodel
gobiernoMoralesenBolivia.
DieneuenMitte-Links-Regierungen,dieab2003Lateinamerikaprägten,verfolgten ein ökonomisches Modell, das gemeinhin als „Neo-Extraktivismus“ bezeichnetwirdundaufeinerwirtschaftlichenReprimarisierungbasiert.DieserextraktiveAkkumulationsmoduskannauchalsexportorientiertesEntwicklungsmodell
aufRohstoffbasisbeschriebenwerden.IndeneinzelnenLändernLateinamerikas
findensichjedochsehrunterschiedlicheAusprägungenundambivalenteEffekte
dieses ökonomischen Entwicklungsmodells, das für viele AutorInnen vordergründig zur Verschärfung der strukturellen wirtschaftlichen Abhängigkeit vom
Weltmarktführt.
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11:00–12:30
Die Regierung von Evo Morales (ab 2006) in Bolivien steht für einen radikalreformistischen Fall der neuen Mitte-Links-Regierungen in Lateinamerika, mit
progressiver, neo-extraktivistischer Orientierung. Bolivien wird als Sonderfall
bezeichnet, da das Hauptbestreben der Regierung Morales explizit in der Dekolonisierung und damit im endgültigen Bruch mit kolonialen Abhängigkeiten
lag.ZumerstenMalwurdendieRechteindigenerVölkeranerkannt,ihresoziale
Integration und demokratische Teilhabe gestärkt und eine entsprechende ökonomischeUmverteilungangestoßen.DieseUmverteilungunddiedamitverbundenen sozialen Reformen, die u.a. zu einem signifikanten Rückgang der Armut
beitrugen,wurdendurchdenExportvonRohstoffen–vorallemErdölund-gas–
ermöglicht,derenHoheitsrechtemanzurückeroberthatte.Bolivienverfolgtnicht
nur einen neo-extraktivistischen Kurs, sondern zeigt ein viel komplexeres und
vielfältigeresBild.NebenderRückgewinnungnatürlicherRessourcenversuchte
die Regierung auch Industrialisierungsprozesse zu implementieren. Obwohl die
ErgebnissedieserWirtschaftspolitiksichnochnichteindeutigindenStatistiken
widerspiegeln,vorallemaufgrundderPersistenzeinigerstrukturellerSchwächen,könnenersteErfolgeverzeichnetwerden.
Der Fall Bolivien veranschaulicht bestimmte Ambivalenzen des neo-extraktivistischenWirtschaftsmodellsunddessenUmsetzung,diesichauchinsozialenKonfliktenvorOrtwiderspiegeln.ZielmeinerPräsentationistes,dieWidersprüche
des Neo-Extraktivismus in Lateinamerika exemplarisch aufzuzeigen. Nach einer
Einführung zum Thema (Neo-)Extraktivismus und einer kurzen ZusammenfassungderSituationindenverschiedenenlateinamerikanischenLändernseitden
2000ernwerdeichmichkonkretdembolivianischenBeispielwidmen.
Lectureanddiscussion(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Anewhope?Thediscourseofnatureinthenewsocialgeographyof
ChileanPatagonia
EnriqueAliste(UdCh,SantiagodeChile)
To produce images capable of representing the ecological ideal in the world
requires several important scenarios. Patagonia plays an important role in this
scenario, as a place associated with a strong sense of pristine, an inhospitable
areawithuntouchedgeography.
Theideasthatproducedthesescenarioshavebeenlargelystrengthenedfromthe
notionsofmargins,bordersordistance.Thesearealltopicsformedfromtheidea
that while disadvantage initially led to these spaces becoming neglected territories,todaytheyaresitesofinterestwhosevaluestemspreciselyfromitsstatus
asdistance.
Research focuses on the conditions that produced the possible utopia for ecological dream of the planet. These conditions have been mobilized by an imaginaryecologicalideal,whichhasreliedonphotographic,cinematographic,literary
andgeopoliticalproduction,whichtogetherdefinedageographymarkedbythe
ideaofboundary,immensityandpristine.
Consequently this production of space resulted in a process of social, economic
and political reorganization of the social and cultural geography, where new
interests and strategies start to reassess this new source of value and in this
sense,createdanewsociologicalmorphologyaroundthisterritory.
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14:30–16:00
Lectureanddiscussion(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
CriticalconceptsinGeography.AviewfromLatinAmerica
PerlaZusman(UBA/CONICET,BuenosAires)
Conceptshaveaperformativecharacter.Itmeansthattheydonotonlygraspthe
dynamic of historical, social and spatial processes but also participate in the
productionoftheseprocesses.Atthesametimeconceptshavepoliticalimplications. Firstly, they can either legitimize the existing order or can contribute to
redesign of other possible worlds. Secondly, they are involved in political
strugglessincetheircontentsareshapedandredefinedbysocialconflicts.
The paper will present some discussions on ideas of territory and socio-spatial
justicethataretakingplaceinsocialsciences.Specifically,wewanttoestablisha
dialoguebetweenthereadingsthatemergefromthecentralcountriesandthose
originating in Latin America. Latin American perspectives are embedded in
decolonialvisions(theyrecognizethelocalcharacterofknowledgeandtheneed
for diversifying places of enunciation) and in the conceptual redefinitions that
are being carried out by different social movements of the region within the
frameworkfortheirdemandsforrecognitionorsocialredistribution.
Saturday, September 3
9:00–10:30 Lectureanddiscussion(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
TerritorialidadesySustentabilidad:conceptosymetodologíasenel
contextodelaglocalización
ClaudiaTomadoni(ARCOSUR,Weimar/Jena)
Comoconsecuenciadelprocesogeohistóricodereestructuracióndelcapitalismo
financiero, estamos en presencia de un proceso de alta volatilidad: la
glocaliza(c)ión.TantolasaccionesGLObalescomolasLoCALesdelosdiferentes
actores que intervienen en el territorio producen territorialidades variadas
acorde a su grado de empoderamiento. Las geografías que resultan de este
proceso muestran simultáneamente lógicas territoriales glocaldependientes y
emancipadoras. En este contexto, cómo referir al concepto de sustentabilidad,
cómocaracterizarestaslógicasycuálessonlosdesafíosmetodológicosdecaraa
estrategias emancipadoras para sociedades en movimiento como las Latinoamericas.
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11:00–12:30
14:30–16:00
Lectureanddiscussion(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
CrisisofcapitalismandterritorialhybridizationinLatinAmerican
metropolis
PabloCiccolella(UBA,BuenosAires)
Considerable Metropolitan transformations in Latin America have taken place
duringthelastdecades.Theycreatedtheneedforarevitalizeddiscussiononthe
newnatureoftheLatinAmericancity,inordertoidentifycommonfeaturesand
singularitiesinthegreatmetropolisesoftheregion.Wediscussthenewtensions
of the new Metropolitan scenarios, such as the difficulties of local states to
understand and metabolize these changes, and to develop effective forms of
interventionforurbanspaces;theadvanceofahegemonicurbanprojectmainly
represented by financial and real estate capital; and the worsening of an
historicallyunequalterritorialsocio-economicstructure.
When looking at these tensions, significant questions appear: Is it possible to
think of a competitive, productive and in turn socially fair and territorially
integratedLatinAmericancity?Whatimages,whatcitymodelsareemergingasa
result of the accelerated changes suffered by the metropolis, and, at the same
time,whatimaginaryurbanutopiasareemerging?
Thewaythatcapitalismusestheterritorytoboostmetropolitandevelopment,if
not the building of cities and suburbs on a large scale, seems to be one of the
attemptstoexitthestructuralcrisisobservedsincethe90s,whilealsoproducing
conditions for a new conjunctural or even structural crisis, and generating
processesofterritorialhybridization.
Globalization,financializationandneoliberalismconstituteareality,ahardlimit
for the city production policies, but they cannot immobilize arguments for new
utopiasandforthecreationofnewformsofmanagementandalternativepowers
whilethetotalcrisisofcapitalismortherearticulationofpoliticalandproductive
forcesredefinethemselves.
Lectureanddiscussion(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Geographiesofcommunities:SustainabilityandGlobalUnderstanding
TiloFelgenhauer(FSU,Jena)
Sustainability and transitions to sustainable forms of living are key issues of
contemporarypublicdiscourseaswellastheyaresubjectstoin-depthscientific
research. As a recurring outcome the contrast arises between widely affirmed
rhetorics of community and collective responsibility on the one hand and practical limitations for “real” transformations of everyday practice or capitalist regimesontheother.
Thepresentationapproachesthismatterbyrevisitingclassicnotionsofsocietal
evolution and the much-discussed opposition of community (Gemeinschaft) vs.
society (Gesellschaft). Since imaginations of communities are obviously crucial
forsustainabilitystrategiesbasicquestionsarise:Whatarethebasicdifferences
betweencommunityandsocietyundercontemporaryconditions–especiallyin
spatial respects? Which community is actually addressed by the “we” in sustainabilityrhetorics?Andhowdoideasofcommunityrelatetoeverydayroutine
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16:30–18:00
practice, complex institutional implementation and the complexity of late
modernsocietiesingeneral?
As a contribution to the discussion of such questions the hypothesis will be
introduced that many forms of sustainability strategies operate implicitly with
the concept of community (Gemeinschaft) while the majority of aspired
subsequent actions would have to be situated in the context of society
(Gesellschaft). Thus, strategies of public mobilization and rhetorics of collective
action often remain limited in their outcome. In order to overcome the gap
between community and society several scenarios will be explored – ranging
fromtraditionalregionalismtothecurrentconceptofGlobalUnderstanding.
WorldCafé(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
GlobalUnderstanding
KarstenGäbler(FSU,Jena)
Sunday, September 4
10:00–12:30
LectureandWorkshop(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Methodsoftransdisciplinaryresearch
KarstenGäbler(FSU,Jena)
Transdisciplinarity has become one of the most popular buzzwords of presentday science. However, the frequency of the word’s use surprisingly contrasts
witharemarkableconceptualvaguenessorevencompletemisunderstandingof
the term. The workshop will develop an understanding of transdisciplinary
research that is rooted in both transgressing disciplinary boundaries and
transgressing the boundaries of the scientific ivory tower. We will address
methodological questions of bridging different scientific mindsets (connecting
disciplines around shared problems) and questions of translating lifeworldproblemsintoscientificsubject-matters(integrationtechniques).
14:00–18:00
FieldtripDornburg
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Monday, September 5
8:30–19:00
FieldtripHelmholtz-ZentrumfürUmweltforschung(Helmholtz
CentreforEnvironmentalResearch)Leipzig
EnvironmentalresearchandSocialSciences
MatthiasGroß(UFZ/FSU,Leipzig/Jena)
FieldtripLeibnizInstitutfürLänderkunde(LeibnizInstitutefor
RegionalStudies)Leipzig
Sustainablelandmanagement:TheKULUNDAproject
SebastianLentz(IfL,Leipzig)
Tuesday, September 6
9:00–9:45 Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Tensionsbetweennatureconservationandfamilyfarmingin
Misiones(Argentina)
LucilaMuñecas(UBA,BuenosAires)
9:45–10:30 Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
ThePoliticalEcologyofHeimatanditssocietalandspatialrelations
incontemporarymediadiscourses
RobertWenzl(FSU,Jena)
11:00–11:45
Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Timberexpansion,socio-naturaldisastersandtheemergenceofnew
territorialities.CaseStudyinConstitución,Chile
MarcelaSalgado(SantiagodeChile)
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11:45–12:30
14:30–16:30
20:00 Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
HowdonativeforestsinnorthernPatagoniacontributetoglobal
ClimateChangemitigationpolicies?Reflectionsaroundnewneoliberalwaysofmeasuringandvaluatingnature
ConstanzaCasalderrey(UBA,BuenosAires)
Visit“Ernst-Haeckel-Haus”(“VillaMedusa”)Jena
ErnstHaeckelandthefoundationsofecology
ElisabethElschner(FSU,Jena)
Movienight“Historiasmínimas”(Lecturehall,Löbdergraben32)
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Wednesday, September 7
9:00–11:00 Fieldtrip“Bioenergiedorf”(“BioenergyVillage”)Schlöben
Localsustainabilitystrategies
HansPeterPerschke(Mayor,Schlöben)
12:00–17:00
FieldtripWeimar
Thursday, September 8
9:00–9:45 Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Transitiontowns–Fromglobalizationbacktoregionalism
MareikeWurmehl(FSU,Jena)
9:45–10:30 Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Pro-SustainabilitySettlementsinChile:Findingsandpreliminary
discussions
LeonardoCancino(UdCh,SantiagodeChile)
11:00–11:45
11:45–12:30
Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
GoldmininginSanJuan.Localstrategiesvis-a-vistransnational
movements
SilvinaBasualdo(UBA,BuenosAires)
Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Lifestylesandsustainability:Astudentsurvey
ChristineRenner(FSU,Jena)
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14:30–15:15
Studentpresentation(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Sustainabilityandnutrition–Practicesoffoodsharing
JohannEllmer(FSU,Jena)
15:30–17:00
Expertinterview(Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3“Campus”)
Regionalsustainabilitystrategies
AndréSchäfer(NHZ,Arnstadt)
Friday, September 9
9:00–18:00
FieldtripThüringerMinisteriumfürUmwelt,EnergieundNaturschutz(ThuringianMinistryfortheEnvironment,Energy,and
Conservation)Erfurt
Energytransition(“Energiewende”)andClimateChangeinThuringia
MartinGude(TMUEN,Erfurt)
FieldtripErfurt,“HausderNachhaltigkeit”(“Sustainability
House”)/”Welt(t)raume.V.”
SustainabilityandCivilSociety–Localprojects
SaschaSchulz(FSU,Jena/Erfurt)
19:00 EveningDinner(Restaurant“Papiermühle”Jena)
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Saturday, September 10
9:00–10:30 Studentpaneldiscussion(place:Room121,Carl-Zeiss-Str.3)
PoliticalEcologyandtheSpatialTurn
11:00–12:30
Finaldiscussionandevaluation
Sunday, September 11
Departure
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