Time is of the essence: Temporal (in)justice, extractivisms, and dispossessions in the “green transition”

© Pollen

We are happy to invite you to submit your paper proposal to our Panel P102 at the 2026 Conference of the Political Ecology Network (Pollen): ‘Pollen2026: Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’, which will take place in June 2026, Barcelona.

Presentation: Is There a Future Beyond Extractivism? Environmental Justice in Between the Conflictual Temporalities of Hyper-Extractivism and Post-Extractivism.

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“Is There a Future Beyond Extractivism? Environmental Justice in Between the Conflictual Temporalities of Hyper-Extractivism and Post-Extractivism”
Presentation by Alejandro Mora Motta at the ‘Young Scholars’ Conference: Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice, 8–10 October 2025, Hamburg’

Advancing Provenance Research: Annual Meeting of the Working Group Colonial Provenances at the Global Heritage Lab

Nehoa Hilma Kautondokwa, Cynthia Schimming and Julia Binter at the depot of the Ethnologischen Museum Berlin. Filmstill from Tracing Namibian-German Collaborations, a film by Moritz Fehr © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2020.

We are delighted to host this year’s meeting of the AG Koloniale Provenienzen (Working Group Colonial Provenances) at the Global Heritage Lab. The group addresses topics such as the development of long-term strategies for collection management, approaches to prioritizing individual holdings and making research findings accessible, as well as proposals for (transnational) networking and the institutionalization of provenance research at museums and universities.

Conversations on Religion, Clothing and Identity

Ausstellungseröffnung im World Heritage im P26 am 15.05.25 © Volker Lannert Originalfilename: 5A3A8618.jpg

Julia Binter, Argelander Professor of Critical Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Bonn, was recently a guest on the programme Lebenswelten on Radio 3. The programme focuses on sensory reports, differentiated analyses, philosophical perspectives and critical reports on current social issues, and is available online (in German only). Under the title Between Crop […]