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Matter › Energies

When matter is not reduced to its commodity function, capacities of energy release come into sight.

Site › Situations

Encounters are not determined by the intrinsic qualities of a site. They are given shape through capricious moments in which people, things, and interests intersect.

Actor › Forces

Rather than being effected by a clear-cut subjecthood of actors, resource allocations are fields in which many different forces interact with each other.

Production › Economies

Global resource management shifts the attention from the production of values to an economy of resource markets.

Environment › Ecologies

To move forward in struggles over the environment requires recognition of the multitude of ecologies in which these struggles are embedded.

Regulation › Rights

The turn to rights in international law is shedding light on the political and ethical importance of resource justice that goes beyond existing codes of regulation.

Infrastructure › Connectivities

The technological sway of infrastructure is slowly giving way to more resilient and fluid landscapes of connectivity.

Methodology › Engagements

To understand contemporary resource politics is less a question of following disciplinary guidelines and canonical framings than a question of active engagement and experiential exposure.

Locations › Geographies

The complex trajectories of resource circulations indicate a shift from the supremacy of location to global movements across a broad range of geographies.

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