Workshop: Societal Aspects of Mining and Other Extractive Processes

研讨会：采矿和其他采掘过程的社会方面

• 批准号: 1632651
• 负责人: Roopali Phadke
• 金额: $ 2.47万
• 依托单位: Macalester College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632651&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Societal; Aspects; Mining; Other

General Audience Summary The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars whose work addresses technologies, practices, and forms of knowledge related to the mining of minerals, groundwater and fossil fuels. The workshop will be held in November 2016 at the Colorado School of Mines over a three-day period. Its goal is to define a new subfield in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) on subterranean extraction. The workshop will highlight the theoretical and topical commonalities as well as disagreements and debates that make the study of mining and extraction a vibrant, emerging subfield. Workshop participants will include mining and extraction experts as discussants and field trip leaders. Workshop organizers will develop a public website that includes the workshop agenda, conference papers, an executive summary of the event, and a video of the keynote address, which will be live streamed. The organizers have plans to draw audience members from the dense network of industry practitioners in the Front Range, which is home to many mining, oil and gas, and other energy companies. They also plan to prepare an edited volume that includes new and existing STS work on mining and subterranean extraction. Technical Summary The workshop will focus on societal aspects of extractive processes of mining and other forms of natural resource development, which is a potentially rich new area for the field of STS. The existing scholarship on extraction from anthropology, geography and environmental studies provides important insights on the social and environmental dimensions of natural resource production, especially the consequences of this development for vulnerable communities. Yet these fields remain largely distinct from STS and rarely engage practitioners, such as scientists and engineers. STS scholars have studied recent technological developments such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from shale, solar technologies that require rare earth metals, and even the pursuit of minerals found in asteroids. However, subterranean extraction is not yet an identifiable domain of research in STS. STS is well positioned to make an impact in this domain, opening up crucial questions about the expertise, knowledge, and power animating extractive practices. The mapping and extraction of underground resources are technoscientific practices that engage multiple, and sometimes competing, forms of expertise. An STS perspective on extraction will examine the technoscientific aspects of how questions about extraction are posed and deliberated, how extraction itself occurs, and how the consequences of such extraction are addressed. Underlying each of these areas are issues of knowledge, expertise and power that STS is uniquely positioned to explore, but has not yet done so in a systematic way.

这个研讨会的目的是将研究矿物、地下水和矿物燃料开采的技术、实践和知识形式的学者聚集在一起。研讨会将于2016年11月在科罗拉多矿业学院举行，为期三天。它的目标是在科学、技术和社会(STS)中定义一个关于地下开采的新子领域。研讨会将突出理论和专题上的共性，以及使采矿和采掘研究成为一个充满活力的新兴分支领域的分歧和辩论。讲习班参加者将包括采矿和开采专家作为讨论者和实地考察的领队。研讨会组织者将开发一个公共网站，其中包括研讨会议程、会议论文、活动的执行摘要和主旨演讲的视频，并将进行现场直播。组织者计划从前线密集的行业从业者网络中吸引观众，前线是许多采矿、石油和天然气以及其他能源公司的总部所在地。他们还计划准备一本编辑过的卷，其中包括新的和现有的STS在采矿和地下开采方面的工作。技术摘要讲习班将侧重于采矿采掘过程和其他形式的自然资源开发的社会方面，这是科学和技术研究领域一个潜在的丰富的新领域。现有的从人类学、地理学和环境研究中提取资源的学术成果，对自然资源生产的社会和环境层面，特别是这一发展对脆弱社区的后果，提供了重要的见解。然而，这些领域在很大程度上仍有别于STS，很少与科学家和工程师等从业者接触。STS的学者研究了最近的技术发展，比如从页岩中提取石油和天然气的大容量水力压裂，需要稀土金属的太阳能技术，甚至是对小行星中发现的矿物的追求。然而，地下开采还不是STS研究的一个可识别的领域。STS处于有利地位，能够在这一领域产生影响，打开了有关专业知识和动力的关键问题，使采掘实践充满活力。地下资源的测绘和开采是一种技术科学做法，涉及多种形式的、有时是相互竞争的专门知识。STS关于采掘的观点将审查有关采掘的问题如何提出和审议、采掘本身如何发生以及如何处理这种采掘的后果的技术科学方面。这些领域中的每一个都涉及知识、专门知识和权力问题，STS处于独特的地位，可以探索这些问题，但尚未以系统的方式进行探索。