Conveners
Keynote Speech: Modernization through the Motorway: Neoliberal Transformation of Infrastructure in Poland
- Waldemar Kuligowski (Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
- Louise Sträuli (Tallinn University)
Keynote Speech: Electric Mobility Transitions: A Global South and Social Justice Perspective
- Frauke Behrendt
- Karol Kurnicki (Leibniz-IfL)
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Waldemar Kuligowski (Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)Keynote
In my presentation, I would like to focus on the great transformation that began—first in Poland, and later in other socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe—in June 1989. This transformation led to political, economic, social, and infrastructural changes.
Today, we know that new entrepreneurship was accompanied by new poverty, that great opportunities went hand in hand...
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Frauke BehrendtKeynote
What ‘counts’ as electric mobility and is regarded central to low-carbon transitions? Largely electric cars – out of reach for most people on this planet and also unable to lower emissions sufficiently or solve most urban issues, while implicated in mining injustices. Their dominance in statistics, debates, visions and policies perpetuates automobilities while rendering alternatives invisible....
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