AIFIS in collaboration with Universitas Brawijaya, Eutenika, WALHI, and JATAM will organize a public lecture series to address specific themes calles SALON EUTENIKA. In this series, we will explore an era known as the “Capitalocene”, or a geohistorical period in which corporations, states and science formed various geological forces. This geological force has the ability to conquer nature and human population through the capacity and ability to manage these two factors to overcome the accumulation crisis that arises from a disaster. In this context, the Lapindo mud disaster that occurred since May 29, 2006, in Porong, East Java is a geological phenomenon where the alliance of geological forces, namely the company-state-science nexus succeeded in managing natural and human agencies to overcome the crisis of accumulation and environment caused by negligence in the drilling process carried out by the company. This series of seminars aims to understand two interconnected processes, namely: (1) how the operational work of these geological forces in overcoming the accumulation crisis and the environmental crisis they are facing? (2) understanding the impact of disasters and the operational work of these geological forces producing conditions- certain living conditions for villagers in the environmental space affected by the Lapindo mudflow disaster?
The first session will discuss how geological forces overcome the accumulation crisis by implementing disaster management to cope with the threat of natural movements in producing mud and changes in soil structure formation as well as overcoming potential “social” problems that arise from the affected villagers. This meeting offers the view that Lapindo mud management needs to be understood as part of the broader management of capitalism and places the company, state, and science as one geological force in different positions on the accumulation continuum. Companies are on the continuum of capital accumulation; the state is on the continuum of power and knowledge as the continuum of knowledge accumulation.
Date: Friday, July1 , 2022, at 3PM WIB
Speaker: Fathun Karib, PhD (Department of Sociology, SUNY, Binghamton)
Responders: Rere Christanto (WALHI)
Moderator: Lutfi Amiruddin (Department of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya)
Registration: eutenika.org/daftar
