When: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PMWhere: 19th March, 2-5pm at WCH Garrod: 2.35, Turner St, London E1 2AD, 20th March, 3-5pm at Graduate Centre: GC604, Mile End Campus, QMUL, London E1 4NS
The two-day workshop, hosted by QMUL’s Centre for Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP), will unite scholars exploring finance, sustainability, and infrastructures, encompassing physical infrastructure and broader social and ecological dynamics. Speakers will discuss the interplay of finance, race, gender, and colonial legacies in modern economic and ecological crises.
This two-day workshop hosted by QMUL’s Centre for Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP) will bring together diverse scholars working at the intersection of finance, sustainability, and infrastructures, broadly defined to include both physical infrastructure and wider social and ecological dynamics. Invited speakers, Dorothy Tang (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore) and Keston Perry (Assistant Professor, UCLA), will lead debate on the entanglements of finance, race, gender, and colonial legacies in contemporary forms of economic and ecological crisis.Day One of the workshop will explore how these scholars have brought different critical perspectives to bear on themes encompassing infrastructure imaginations, socio-ecological impacts of transnational flows of infrastructure investment, the global political economy of climate finance and governance, and everyday experiences of debt and structural dispossession, in communities across Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Day Two of the workshop will explore methodologies for the study of these processes, drawing on the experiences of our key speakers, and of ECR scholars at QMUL currently engaged in empirical research on finance and socio-ecological infrastructures across different geographies.
Organised by Isadora Cruxên, Mary Robertson, and Jessica Sklair.