Jul 23, 2024: InfraNorth at EASA 2024 Conference in Barcelona
InfraNorth team members will participate in the 18th EASA Biennial Conference in Barcelona. With the theme “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology,” the event will take place at the University of Barcelona (July 23 – 26, 2024).
On Tuesday, July 23, Katrin Schmid will present her paper “Devolution of Desires, or How Food and Transportation Determine Inuit Futures” as part of panel 226, “Theorising Futurity from the Fringes.” In her presentation, she will examine the role of infrastructure, especially transportation, in Nunavut residents’ desires on the path to territorial food sovereignty and asks how development can better align with Inuit needs. This session will take place from 13:45 to 15:30 CEST in room 212 of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona (c/ Montalegre, 6).
On Friday, July 26, Philipp Budka and Katrin Schmid, along with Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester) and Raphael Deberdt (Colorado School of Mines), will co-convene panel 075, titled “Infrastructural Residues: Reproduction and Destruction of Infrastructures Across Space and Time.” This session will cover a range of perspectives and contexts, acknowledging that infrastructures play a crucial role in social transformations, sociopolitical developments, and innovation processes. The panel will take place in room 307 of the Faculty of Geography and History and is structured in two parts, the first from 9:00 to 10:45 CEST and the second from 11:15 to 13:00 CEST.
Additionally, Philipp Budka will present a paper titled “Planes, Trains, Ships and Rockets: Infrastructural Temporalities and Entanglements in Northern Manitoba, Canada” in the second part of panel 075. The paper explores the temporalities and entanglements of transport infrastructures through concrete moments of change.
