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。该研讨会将于2016年11月在科罗拉多矿业学院举行，为期三天。其目标是在科学、技术与社会（STS）中定义一个新的地下开采子领域。讲习班将突出理论和专题共性以及使采矿和提取研究成为一个充满活力的新兴分支领域的分歧和辩论。研讨会参与者将包括采矿和开采专家作为讨论者和实地考察的领导者。研讨会组织者将开发一个公共网站，其中包括研讨会议程、会议文件、活动的执行摘要和主题演讲的视频，该视频将进行直播。组织者计划从Front Range密集的行业从业者网络中吸引观众，这里是许多采矿、石油和天然气以及其他能源公司的所在地。他们还计划编写一册经过编辑的书，其中包括新的和现有的STS关于采矿和地下开采的工作。讲习班将集中讨论采矿和其他形式的自然资源开发的提取过程的社会方面，这是可持续发展技术领域一个可能丰富的新领域。从人类学、地理学和环境研究中提取的现有学术成果，对自然资源生产的社会和环境层面，特别是这种发展对脆弱社区的影响，提供了重要的见解。然而，这些领域在很大程度上与STS不同，很少有科学家和工程师等实践者参与。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规模水力压裂，需要稀土金属的太阳能技术，甚至是在小行星上发现的矿物的追求。然而，地下提取还不是STS研究的一个明确领域。STS完全有能力在这一领域产生影响，开启了关于专业知识、知识和动力的关键问题，这些问题推动了采掘实践。地下资源的测绘和开采是涉及多种，有时是相互竞争的专业知识形式的技术科学实践。STS对提取的观点将研究提取的技术科学方面的问题是如何提出和审议的，提取本身是如何发生的，以及如何处理这种提取的后果。每一个领域的基础都是知识、专业知识和权力问题，STS有独特的优势来探索这些问题，但尚未以系统的方式进行。

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.