Workshop: Societal Aspects of Mining and Other Extractive Processes

本次研讨会的目的是汇集学者，他们的工作涉及与矿物，地下水和化石燃料开采有关的技术，实践和知识形式。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的共性以及分歧和辩论，使采矿和提取的研究充满活力，新兴的子领域。参加讲习班的人将包括担任讨论者和实地考察领队的采矿和采掘专家。讲习班组织者将开发一个公共网站，其中包括讲习班议程、会议文件、活动执行摘要和主旨演讲视频，视频将进行现场直播。组织者计划从Front Range的密集行业从业者网络中吸引观众，Front Range是许多采矿，石油和天然气以及其他能源公司的所在地。他们还计划准备一个编辑卷，其中包括新的和现有的STS工作采矿和地下提取。研讨会将侧重于采矿和其他形式的自然资源开发的采掘过程的社会方面，这是STS领域的一个潜在的丰富的新领域。人类学、地理学和环境学研究中关于采掘的现有学术成果为自然资源生产的社会和环境层面提供了重要的见解，特别是这种发展对脆弱社区的影响。然而，这些领域仍然在很大程度上有别于STS，很少涉及实践者，如科学家和工程师。STS学者研究了最近的技术发展，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，可以在这一领域产生影响，打开有关专业知识，知识和权力的关键问题，激发采掘实践。地下资源的测绘和开采是技术科学实践，涉及多种形式的专门知识，有时是相互竞争的专门知识。从STS的角度来看，提取将研究有关提取的问题是如何提出和审议的技术科学方面，提取本身是如何发生的，以及如何解决这种提取的后果。在这些领域中，每一个领域都有知识、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，但尚未系统地这样做。

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.