This online lecture series seeks to foster interdisciplinary and historically-inflected discussions about how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources. In Semester 2, the lecture series will focus on resources struggles in the context of occupation around the world. We will collectively explore how struggles over resource plunder and exploitation shape the dynamics of occupation, and how peoples under occupation are contesting extraction and asserting ownership and sovereignty over resources as part of a broader resistance movements. Speakers will examine resource struggles under occupation in Greenland, West Papua, Palestine, Kashmir, Bougainville and Western Sahara to consider the different forms of political contestation they produce and how resource struggles might be mobilised to enliven political possibilities for self-determination and decolonisation.
Convened by Julia Dehm (La Trobe), Sahiba Maqbool (La Trobe) & Caitlin Murphy (Melbourne)
Professor Christine Schwöbel Patel (Warwick), ‘From Gaza to Greenland: Green Frontiers and the Laws of Extraction’
22 September, 6pm AEST/9am BST
Register: https://latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/register/y8fp5v7HQCWrDAJDoFDS_g
Dr Sophie Chao (Sydney), ‘Rethinking Struggles over “Resources” through the lens of Multispecies Justice: Insights from Indigenous communities in the West Papuan Plantation Nexus’
30 September, 11am AEST/6pm PDT
Register: https://latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/register/o6WTujcVQYS7q2Rg_BeD1w
Professor Michael Lynk (Western Ontario), ‘Palestine, Occupation and the Plunder of Natural Resources’
6 October, 6pm ET/ 7 October, 9am AEDT
Register: https://latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/register/iZgT1yYOQ5a8KAGreMa52A
Dr Omer Aijazi (Manchester), ‘Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir’
13 October, 6pm AEST/9am BST
Register: https://latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/register/xqfuemxjSK-0XD5VOXKaYw
Dr Kristian Laslett (Ulster), ‘Australia’s Hidden War in the Pacific: Resources Struggles in Bougainville’
27 October, 10am AEDT/5pm PT
Register: https://latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/register/TnwP1999Tba5QGhdLrRrQA
Dr Randi Irwin (Newcastle), ‘Selling the Future State: Making Property for Sahrawi Sovereignty in Western Sahara’
10 November, 1pm AEDT
Register: https://latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/register/t6M0XaOlRT2Eaj17SsOoiQ
Dr Hadeel Abu Hussein (Oxford), ‘Resources Under Occupation: Resources, Land, Palestine and TWAIL’
Details TBC
More details available at https://lawecologypolitics.com/resource-struggles-and-international-law-lecture-series/
Supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award DE240100131 and the International and Comparative Law Cluster, La Trobe Law School.