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Inscription séminaire Daniela Lai, "Temporalities of extractive violence: steelmaking pasts and futures."
Mardi 12 mai 2026 - 15h-17h
CRESPPA, 59-61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris (présentiel uniquement).
Daniela Lai, "Temporalities of extractive violence: steelmaking pasts and futures."
La discussion sera assurée par Jacobo Grajales, Professeur à l'Université Paris 1.
Temporalities of extractive violence: steelmaking pasts and futures
This paper examines the reproduction of extractive violence and its complex temporalities through a focus on steelmaking. Steelmaking has a long history of relying on extractivism – specifically, for the mining of iron ore and coal required to make steel – while at the same time steelworks were often framed and welcomed as a marker of progress and modernity, and a driver of economic prosperity for local communities. As a highly polluting, strategically significant and capital-intensive industry, steelmaking is currently under pressure from the intersecting crises of climate breakdown, war and global instability, and late capitalism. It is within this context that extractivist pasts and futures are constructed and narrated to justify the continuation of violence under the guise of transition. The paper analyses and contrasts ways of knowing and representing steelmaking based on coal and iron ore as an extractivist past, despite their continued permanence; while so-called ‘green’ technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture and storage are positioned as potential and desirable visions of a future for steelmaking that remains, in fact, violently extractivist. To make this argument, the paper draws connections between plans for post-war reconstruction in Ukraine, the transition to Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) technology in Wales, and narratives surrounding green steel technologies in Sweden.
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