An agenda of research and action
The African continent is a major source of minerals essential for the green transition, but it is also disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change. In the face of the limitations of political, industrial and scientific responses, this project, winner of the 2023 “International Networks in SHS – Climate and Environment” call for projects from the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, proposes a new research agenda based on dialogue between the social and natural sciences.
This dialogue will bring together students, researchers, extractive companies, policymakers, local communities and civil society. The aim is to question the global distribution of the benefits of mining. The project is structured around two dialogue spaces:
- A first space in South Africa will examine the reconfiguration of extractive production territories (transoceanic corridors, offshore and onshore financial flows, reorganization of labor relations, etc.).
- A second space in France will aim to institutionalize the conditions of possibility for a critique of environmental justice through the creation of a university-based “clinic” of research and action.