Resources of Resistance: Production, Consumption, Transformation

The Biennial Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) Postgraduate Conference

24-25 July 2014, University of York
Confirmed keynotes: Professor Jennifer Wenzel (University of Minnesota), Dr Sharae Deckard (UCD) & Dr Anthony Carrigan (Leeds)

Bringing together postgraduates, early career researchers, and keynote speakers from across the UK, the US and Europe, this two-day interdisciplinary conference addresses critical, topical, and increasingly urgent questions surrounding the concept and roles of resources within the postcolonial world and capitalist world-system. In particular, the conference seeks to probe the dialectical potential of resources by exploring the ways in which human and non-human resources might equally be seen as unexpected sources of resistance towards the uneven world-system of resource use and abuse, and resource-based asymmetry. As such, the event will appeal to a range of researchers interested in the idea of resources, not simply as product or commodity, or the materialisation of productive or unpaid labour, but as a tool that might be leveraged, utilised and deployed as a means of resistance against the unsustainable expansionary logic of the capitalist world-system.

Confirmed panel topics include:

• Alternative aesthetics of/as resources of resistance
• Non-human animals and conservation systems
• Imagining consumption and the politics of food
• Land, water, oil, and (non-)sustainability
• Spaces of local resistance and control

To find more information and register for the conference, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resources-of-resistance-production-consumption-transformation-tickets-11184620501 or http://resourcesofresistance.wordpress.com/

Any questions or queries, please email the organisers: Hannah Boast, Rebekah Cumpsty, Nicola Robinson and Lucy Potter at: worldresources2014@gmail.com