Conference

Resource Nationalism(s) in the 21st Century:

Experiences, Innovations and Debates in the Global South

York University (Keele Campus)

Robert Everett Senate Chamber, N940 Ross Building

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

28-30 May 2024

Day 1 – Tuesday, May 28^th

9:00-9:15    Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:15-9:45   Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa and Beyond: Project Overview and Aims of the Conference

        Richard Saunders, York University

9:45-11:15  Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

Chair: Japhace Poncian, Mkwawa University College of Education

• Chris Huggins, University of Ottawa
• Agatha Siwale-Mulenga, SAIPAR (online) and Alex Caramento, York University
• Richard Saunders, York University and Lyman Mlambo, University of Zimbabwe

11:15-11:30 15-Minute Break

11:30-13:00  Indigenous Sovereignty and Resistance

Chair: Viviana Patroni, York University

• Yojana Miraya Ossco, University of Toronto – “Indigenous Women’s Resistance in the Context of Mining Extractions in The Andes of Peru” (online)
• Aditi Basu, Independent Researcher – ‘Nationalizing Resources and Ecological Conservation in India: A ‘Paradox’ for Jharkhand’s Marginal Communities in the 21st Century?’ (online)
• Vivi Nguyen, York University – ‘Rare Earth Elements and Indigenous Self-Determination’

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

14:00-15:15   Keynote:  “Access to Health, Mining Revenue and Public Policies in West Africa”

             Bonnie Campbell, UQAM, Montreal

15:15-15:30  15-Minute Break

15:30-17:00  (Neo)extractivist Models in Latin America and the Caribbean (Bilingual)

Chair: Antulio Rosales, York University

• Thomas Chiasson-Lebel, Université de l’Ontario Français – ‘Du nationalisme des ressources à l’extractivisme du désastre: le rêve devenu cauchemar en Équateur’
• Pedro Alarcón, CISEPA – ‘The Latin American Developmental State: Trajectories of Natural Resource Nationalism’ (online)
• Tamanisha John, York University – ‘Guyana: Myth of Capitalist Resource Extraction as Development’
• Craig Johnson (University of Guelph), Araceli Clavijo (CONICET), et al. – “Pathologies of extraction: Lithium dilemmas in Latin America’

[30 Minute Break]

Day 2 – Wednesday, May 29^th

9:00-10:00  Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa: Productive Linkages

Chair: Marja Hinfelaar, SAIPAR

• Jesse Ovadia, University of Windsor
• Lyman Mlambo, University of Zimbabwe
• Alex Caramento, York University

10:00-11:30  Resource Nationalism and Environmental Justice

Chair: Chris Huggins, University of Ottawa

• Rahul Basu (Goa Foundation) and Scott Pegg (IUPUI) – ‘Minerals are a shared inheritance: Accounting for the resource curse’ (online)
• Patrick Bond, University of Johannesburg – ‘Resource nationalism’s inter-generational, depletion, pollution, emissions and social-reproduction blind spots’ (online)
• Evelyn Kipkosgei, OISE – University of Toronto – ‘Environment and Transnationalism: Fluorspar Mining in Kerio Valley, Kenya’ (online)

11:30-11:45  15-Minute Break

11:45–13:00  Keynote: “Extractive Bargains: State-Society Nexus vis-à-vis the Politics of (Post)-Extractivism”

   Nathan Andrews, McMaster University

13:00-14:00   Lunch

Chair: Japhace Poncian, Mkwawa University College of Education

• Kennedy Manduna, University of Witwatersrand – ‘The spatio-temporality of mining extractivism in the age of resource nationalism: Seeing Zimbabwe’s extractive industry indigenisation through Critical Theory’ (online)
• Kady Seguin, IMPACT – ‘In-Country Value Addition and Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Uganda’ (online)
• Chris Roberts, University of Calgary – ‘Is free carried interest getting carried away? The promises and pitfalls of state equity participation in mining without skin-in-the-game’
• Benjamin Ofosu-Atuahene, Queen’s University, ‘Resource Nationalism(s) for Whom? Agential Constructivist Insights from Botswana’s Diamond Sector’

15:30-15:45      15-Minute Break

15:45-17:15      Examining the Regulatory and Ideological Foundations of Resource Nationalism in West and Central Africa (Bilingual)

Chair: Bonnie Campbell, UQAM

• David Damtar, University of Oxford – ‘‘‘Under the ‘Cockerel’s’ Rule’’: Making Meaning of Resource Nationalism in Nkrumah’s Ghana (1950-1966)’ (online)
• Emmanuel Graham, York University – ‘Resource Nationalism in Africa: A Critical Political Economy Analysis of Petroleum-driven Industrialisation in Ghana’
• Alhassane Keita, UQAM – ‘Le nationalisme des ressources face aux impératifs de la réglementation de l’investissement direct étranger : le cas du Libéria’
• Fidèle Menavanza, Université Laval – ‘Nationalisme des ressources et recettes fiscales : initiatives d’investissement social et de justice fiscale. Expérience de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC)’

Day 3 – Thursday, May 30^th

9:00 -10:30    Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa: Fiscal Linkages

 Chair: Lyman Mlambo, University of Zimbabwe

• Marja Hinfelaar, SAIPAR and Sylvia Mwamba, SAIPAR (online)
• Japhace Poncian, Mkwawa University College of Education
• Richard Saunders, York University

10:30-12:00    Social Movements, Community Advocacy, and Resource (sub)Nationalisms

Chair: Pablo Idahosa, York University

• Caesar Apentiik and Maddie Fleming, University of Calgary – ‘Unveiling the Dynamics of Resource Nationalism: A Case Study of Mining in Ghana’s Upper East Region’ (online)
• Omar Faruque, University of New Brunswick – ‘Resource Nationalism, Energy Politics, and Social Movements in Bangladesh’
• Raras Cahyafitri and Nanang Indra Kurniwan, Universitas Gadjah Mada – ‘Local politics in resource nationalism narrative: An insight from Merah Putih discourse in tin mining in Bangka Belitung, Indonesia’ (online)

12:00–12:30  Closing Remarks and Reflections

Richard Saunders, York University

Pablo Idahosa, York University

12:30–13:30  Lunch

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of this conference:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University