Deregulated Infrastructures of Extraction in Rainforest Frontiers

该项目利用在秘鲁、玻利维亚和巴西雨林中收集的经验数据，对发生在雷达之下的入侵经济--土地掠夺、非法伐木和探矿者采矿--进行了比较研究。在这样做的过程中，INFRACURSIONS打造了一种新的方法来探索入侵全球边际并不可避免地导致环境退化的秘密经济活动。这项研究的重点不仅是及时和紧迫的，而且将是将各种放松管制的采掘活动作为综合跨界现象进行研究的第一次大规模研究。它还重新配置了在全球南方和其他地区环境破坏的背景下对社会和道德规范的人类学方法。该项目询问：1.什么历史因素导致入侵？什么对环境有影响？2.入侵经济的动机和经历是什么？3.什么社会和技术安排促进了入侵的存在？4.入侵经济是如何相交的？INFACURSIONS通过开创性的流体基础设施启发式方法；以行动者为中心的方法；人类学、环境科学和社会政策领域之间的伙伴关系；发展推理经济学研究集群；开放获取数据仪表板/储存库；以及定期分析实验室来回答这些问题。

Drawing on empirical data collected in the rainforests of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, the project offers a comparative study of what arereferred to here as incursion economies - land grabbing, illegal logging, and prospector mining - that take place below the radar. Inso doing, INFRACURSIONS forges a novel approach to 'incursion infrastructures' that explores the clandestine economic activities thatinvade the global margins and invariably result in environmental degradation. Not only is this research timely and urgent in its focusbut will be the first large-scale study of its kind to bring together various deregulated extractive activities investigated as anintegrative transboundary phenomenon. It also reconfigures anthropological approaches to social and moral norms in contexts ofenvironmental destruction in the Global South and beyond.The project asks:1. What historical factors have led to incursions and what are the environmental impacts?2. What are the motivations and experiences that underpin incursion economies?3. What social and technical arrangements facilitate the existence of incursions?4. How do incursion economies intersect?INFRACURSIONS answers these questions through a ground-breaking heuristic of fluid infrastructure; an actor-centred methodology;partnership between the fields of anthropology, environmental science, and social policy; the development of an IncursionEconomies Research Cluster; an open access data dashboard/repository; and regular analysis labs.