Project description
How transport infrastructures address sustainable development
Political ecology explores how culture, history, and politics shape our understanding of nature, but it often overlooks the influence of infrastructure on socio-environmental realities. Various transport infrastructures are essential for addressing climate change and sustainability. The ERC-funded Roads2SUSTAINABILITY project will introduce an approach called infrastructural political ecology. It combines analyses of physical infrastructure with theories of more-than-human relationships and multi-species justice, all while focusing on power dynamics. The project addresses urgent issues such as climate change and sustainable development. Led by a principal investigator (PI) and supported by two post-doctoral researchers and 16 indigenous researchers, it will examine road construction in the Western Amazon and explore the potential of alternative infrastructures.
Objective
Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ nonhuman relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecologys attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability are materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development.
With a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers, the PI will investigate road building in the Western Amazon and the emancipatory possibilities of alternative infrastructures. Specifically, different types of transport infrastructure (top-down infrastructure, community roads and river networks) at three sites crucial for responses to climate change and sustainability Indigenous territories, conservation areas and cities. Grounded in collaboration with four Indigenous territories, a core foundation is an innovative but reproduceable decolonial methodology. This is used to address three objectives 1. To investigate how different forms of road and river infrastructure co-constitute trajectories of sustainable development and to conceptualise sustainable development from these material geographies 2. To reveal, analyze and advance the emancipatory possibilities of infrastructure 3. To improve highest ethical standards of how research is undertaken, networked and communicated on Indigenous land.
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