Call for Papers: Panel “Techno-scientific expertise and geographical imaginaries in the making of new resource frontiers” at EASST2018 (25.–28.07.2018, Lancaster)

You are invited to submit paper proposals for the panel “Techno-scientific expertise and geographical imaginaries in the making of new resource frontiers” at the EASST2018 conference which will be held from 25th to 28th July 2018 in the City of Lancaster, UK.

This panel invites contributions from scholars investigating the role that technical experts (e.g. geologists, chemical engineers, metallurgists, valuation consultants) and technologies play in opening up new frontiers for mineral extraction in the ‘anthroposphere’ and beyond.

The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2018.

For more information, check the full Call for Proposals.