Anthropological Perspectives on Ecocide: Ecological Grief, Planetary Datafication, and Extractivism
This panel brings together three contributions to examine ecocide from different anthropological perspectives. Drawing on sensory ethnography, the first presentation explores grief and narratives of more-than- human loss as part of the social dimensions of ecocide. The second presentation shifts focus to infrastructures of planetary datafication, exploring options for liveable futures with and beyond data centers. The third presentation examines gold mining in the Colombian Chocó, where many Afro-Colombian landholders and artisanal miners saw illicit gold extraction as an imperfect means to construct new worlds, rather than as a threat to existing ones. Together, the presentations invite us to rethink ecocide as a dispersed and relational condition, one that is inhabited, sensed, and contested across more-than-human worlds, infrastructural regimes, and extractive landscapes.
Grief and Narratives of More-than-Human Loss: The Social Dimensions of Ecocide – Anke Tonnaer
Ecologies of Planetary Datafication: Liveable Futures with and beyond Data Centers? – Stephanie Ketterer
Positioned Mining Worlds: Gold and Not-So-Radical Alterity in the Colombian Pacific – Jesse Jonkman