Appel à communications – Colloque “Governing Extraction: Value Chains, Infrastructures, and North–South Relations after 1945”

Date : 12-13 novembre 2026

Lieu : Université de Bâle

Date limite de proposition : 15 mai 2026

Organizers: Sandra Bott (UNIL), Nathalia Capellini (UNIL), Laura Rischbieter (UNIBAS) 

Keynote : Jayita Sarkar (University of Glasgow) 

This international workshop invites proposals for abstracts that examine the connections between extractive industries, energy infrastructures and global value chains, as well as how these were governed, managed and promoted during the second half of the 20th century.  

The expansion of hydrocarbon and metal extraction, along with their associated infrastructures, has profoundly transformed landscapes, ecologies, labour regimes, and the distribution of global power. These activities expanded over the second half of the past century through the constitution of a deeply interconnected system that includes production, logistics, regulation and finance across the globe. Moving beyond the “resource curse” interpretation, this workshop interrogates the links between local territories of extraction across the globe and political elites, as well as international trading hubs. It also invites a reflection on the chronology of this period shaped by several processes such as decolonization and Cold War geopolitics, resource sovereignty, neoliberal restructuring, environmental regulations, and the globalization of companies, which deeply transformed extraction activities.  

This international workshop adopts a historical perspective and asks: How have states, private firms, trading companies, international agencies, and financial actors governed extraction and shaped global value chains? Where, and by whom, is value created, captured, or lost? How have these structures affected North–South political relations and the socio-environmental conditions of extractive regions? 


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sbounoua (6 mars 2026). Appel à communications – Colloque “Governing Extraction: Value Chains, Infrastructures, and North–South Relations after 1945” AJCH. Consulté le 10 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/15tn5


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