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 16th EASA Biennial ConferenceNew anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe 21-24 July 2020 in Lisbon ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and ICS-Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon P020 At the grid edge: homes, neighbourhoods and energy markets (EnergyAnthropology Network)Convenors: Charlotte Johnson (University College London), Abhigyan Singh (Delft University of Technology (TU Delft))Across Europe the grid edge has become a site ofinnovation, experimentation and legal exception. Extra-regulatory markets suchas peer-to-peer energy trading are being trialled. Algorithms and controlsystems are being piloted to automate household appliances. Communities arebecoming virtual power plants. The emerging distributed, decentralised, andoff-grid energy systems profoundly challenge the universalist logic of nationalenergy infrastructures and create an urgent role for anthropological knowledge.Anthropologists are entering these spaces to critique and to intervene. Theyquestion the assumptions supporting energy market construction and bringattention to non-market perspectives. They interrogate the inter- and intra-householddynamics that are created and destabilised as new flows of energy interact withexisting gender, class and power relations. They examine the ethics,moralities, and values that are implicated and invoked. They are working ininterdisciplinary ways, using interventionist approaches and are challengingthe creation of binaries that pit automation against human control. In thispanel we discuss this as a new horizon for anthropological inquiry. One that isprovoked by the changing ways energy is being negotiated within homes,circulated through neighbourhoods, and getting entangled in local markets. Weinvite papers that critique 'low carbon transition', provide ethnographicaccounts of energy, or offer methodological innovations for collaborative, experimentalor interdisciplinary working. We are particularly interested in insights fromglobal south contexts and its cross-cultural comparison with the 'smart energy'narrative in the global north. Overall, we invite broad critical engagementwith issues raised by doing anthropology at the grid edge.P037 Mining the Energy Transition: Technology, Resource Chains, andExtractive EncountersConvenors:     Nikkie Wiegink (Utrecht University), &#160;&#160;&#160; AngelaKronenburg García (UCLouvain (Belgium))The energy transition from a fossil fuel-based systemto a low-carbon future has engendered new technologies and is changing consumerpatterns across the world. Less known is that the energy transition isrestructuring the extractive sector due to new policies and increasing demandfor metals and minerals needed in low-carbon technologies (Addison 2018). Thispanel explores new horizons by linking two sub-fields of anthropology: theanthropology of energy and the anthropology of mining, and invites papers toaddress the energy transition from the perspective of its minerals and metals.Where do the minerals come from that power the batteries from electric vehiclesand make wind turbines durable? Who are the new global players in the emergingresource chains? And how can we study these global dynamics ethnographically?How do, for example, 'energy ethics' (Smith &#38; High 2017) in Europe relateto 'mining encounters' (Pijpers &#38; Eriksen 2019) in the global south? Andwhat kinds of contestations do these encounters engender? We aim to buildfurther on the discussion of 'energopolitics' (Boyer 2019) to illuminate andpoliticize the processes that tend to be obscured by the 'good' of the energytransition and the urgency to fight climate change. Our intention is to unravelthe tensions, interconnectedness, and ambiguities of extractive encounters atdifferent scales. We welcome submissions based on empirical work ormethodological reflections that engage with the technologies, policymaking,mining realities, multi-actor encounters, resource chains and resource boomsemerging at the intersections of the energy transition and the extractiveindustries.P134 Energy production, environment, and human rights in the context ofclimate changeConvenors:     Elisabeth Moolenaar (Regis University),     Ana Isabel Afonso (FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa &#38; CICS.NOVA), &#160;&#160;&#160; DorleDracklé (University of Bremen)One of the goals of the "energyanthropology" is placing energy and the environment in culturalperspective, taking into account meaning (making), relationships, value, andagency. Using ethnography/ethnographic research on energy production can openup a dialogue on urgent matters such as environmental justice, human rights andclimate change. This panel deals with struggles over energy production, debatesover climate change, and the politics of natural resource extraction withinbroader socio-cultural contexts. Energy landscapes are sites of power andcontrol. These sites frequently face environmental degradation, ecologicaldisasters, and/or social disintegration or upheaval. Sites of energy productionare oftentimes located in less urban areas far away from the sites where mostenergy is consumed, turning the former into "sacrifice zones." Local(at times indigenous) populations are most vulnerable because they haveacquired less entitlement to the natural resources, through law, economic andpolitical systems, and/or processes of colonization. Energy production affectsnot only environmental quality but also human rights. Without a livableenvironment, human rights may become either unachievable or meaningless. Energyproduction intensifies challenges to populations who are unable to claim rightssuch as the right to self-determination, sovereignty, or mineral or traditionalland rights. We welcome papers that locate environmental justice, human rights,and/or climate change within ethnographic explorations of energy production&#38; consumption and natural resource extraction. Papers might investigatethese matters for populations affected by energy production, from theperspective of the researcher, and/or as they inform each other.P062 The political power of energy futures within and beyond EuropeConvenors:     Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen, Norway),     Kirsten Endres (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), &#160;&#160;&#160; Katja Müller(Halle University)Debates about climate change have long enteredpolitical arenas through diplomacy, bureaucracy and regulations as part ofworldwide environmental governance. Although global efforts to foster greenerenergy increasingly supplement resource extractivism, unfolding protests pointto the insufficiencies of current measures. This panel asks what politicallegitimacies and forms of power become possible through renewables' developmentand the greening of energy systems. From top-down policymaking regarding energyaccess to grassroots calls for climate justice, this panel interrogates thepolicies and politics surrounding renewable energy, and the unintendedconsequences and alliances in its delivery. Ethnographic investigations in thispanel will combine the intertwined complexities of greening energy withabstractions of political power at various scales. Questions could include: Howdoes political decision-making on energy sources unfold, including expandingresource extraction, extending the grid, or developing renewables? What brutematerialities of wires, cables, and power plants come into play? How dohistoric injustices and exclusionary legacies of extraction, production andconsumption affect future energy horizons? Do imperatives of greening energycreate new role models in energy matters that shift the focus within and beyondEurope? When do debates about local environmental priorities and energy rightsundermine or bolster global climate targets? What new forms of precarity andscarcity do large-scale infrastructural impositions by local or internationalpowerholders entail? We welcome contributions that investigate thecontradictions and contestations between the persistence of conventional energysystems and the rise of renewables within the complex operations of politicalpower that affect our anticipated energy futures.