Deregulated Infrastructures of Extraction in Rainforest Frontiers

根据在秘鲁、玻利维亚和巴西热带雨林收集的经验数据，该项目对这里所说的入侵经济——土地掠夺、非法采伐和勘探者采矿——进行了比较研究，这些都是在雷达下进行的。在此过程中，INFRACURSIONS构建了一种“入侵基础设施”的新方法，探索入侵全球边缘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及时而紧迫，而且将是同类中第一次将各种放松管制的采掘活动作为一个综合跨界现象进行调查的大规模研究。它还重新配置了在全球南方及其他地区环境破坏背景下的社会和道德规范的人类学方法。该项目要求：1；哪些历史因素导致了入侵？环境影响是什么？入侵经济背后的动机和体验是什么？何种社会和技术安排助长了入侵的存在？入侵经济是如何交叉的？infracsions通过开创性的流体基础设施启发式回答了这些问题；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；入侵经济研究集群的发展；开放存取数据仪表板/存储库；还有常规的分析实验室。

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.