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Joint Workshop of the dgv Working Group "Europeanization_Globalization. Ethnographies of the Political", DGSKA Regional Group "Europe," and the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) at  Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg  with Jamie Cross (The University of Edinburgh) and Gisa Weszkalnys (London School of Economics) 25-26 June 2020 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg   The workshop is jointly organized by Jens Adam (University of Göttingen), Katja Müller (MLU Halle), Felix Schiedlowski (MLU Halle), Andreas Streinzer (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main), Jelena Tosic (University St. Gallen) and Asta Vonderau (MLU Halle).An awareness of climate change and its disastrous effects is by now  widespread in media, as well as in academic and political debates. It  prompts the question of how we are to achieve a sustainable future. How  can today's societies be reshaped in regard to energy consumption and  resource extraction? How may new natural resouces and ways of energy  supply be discovered? What political decisions and technological  innovations are required? And what social and environmental consequences  will such transformations have in various parts of the world?  Given the fact that western "carbon democracies" (Timothy Mitchell) are  not only based on, but also shaped by fossile energy and natural  resource extractivism, such futures seem to be difficult if not  impossible to think of. At the same time, it is obvious that extractivim  is not inherently coupled with democratic societies; rather, it  flexibly integrates with different political systems to form multiple  and changing configurations of capitalism in various places and over  changing periods of time. Furthermore, extractivism not only shapes  landscapes and lifestyles in capitalist economies, but also lifeworlds  and environments which appear - at least at first sight - not as part of  capitalist economic zones, as for instance off the grid communities or  non-industrial places which still might experience effects of  extractivism.   Within anthropology, different schools and methodological approaches  including political economy, political ecology, marxist or STS inspired  anthropology have dealt with resources in different ways. These lines of  thought often existed parallel to each other. Our workshop aims to  think through these different perspectives in relational ways. Following  Richardson and Weszkalnys (2014), we aim to think beyond a  "methodological modernism" which studies natural resources exclusively  as isolated entities and commodities within the frame of capitalist  economies. In line with Jamie Cross (Cross 2014; Cross and Murray 2018)  we want to avoid limiting us to binaries such as commodity/waste,  modernization/decline, scarcity/abundance by considering a range of  possible conditions and creative activities which fill the space between  these assumed extremes, such as modes of care, reuse, and repair. We  thus understand natural resources as formed through a relational  performance of productive generative powers (including the powers of  capitalism and inequality) that exceed formal economic models (Cross,  Muray 2018). The workshop focusses on, but is not limited to, the  following thematical issues:  1. Resource Materialities: The Becoming of Resource Environments 2. (Re-)configurations of Extractivism and their Temporalities 3. Relational Geographies of Extractivism and Resourcing 4. Politics if Resourcing: Values and Valuations  We cordially invite scholars working on or interested in the  above-mentioned questions to join the workshop. This workshop is based  on various discussion formats, joint readings and keynotes. Accordingly,  workshop participants are not expected to prepare an individual  presentation. Interested participants are, however, invited to propose a  5-7 Minutes problem-oriented input based on their own research which  may serve as a starting point for joint discussions of the  methodological and other questions raised. There is no participation fee  to be paid. Travel and accomodation costs cannot be covered by the  organizers.The workshop  will take place at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, it begins on Thursday, June 25th at 1p.m. and ends on Friday 26th of June at 3.30 p.m. The workshop has an interactive format and is based on different forms of discussion and dialogue with the keynote speakers and other participants, as well as on inputs from young scholars research projects and common readings. The detailed program and readings will be sent to registered participants later. In order to register please contact: katja.müller[@]zirs.uni-halle.de asta.vonderau[@]ethnologie.uni-halle.de