Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden.<\/p>\n
and B\u00e5rd Lahn<\/span><\/p>\n Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo,<\/p>\n and Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Underground futures<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This session explores the entanglements of forecasting, planning, and economic calculation around underground resources, whether exploited or yet-to-be exploited. This session is organized in collaboration with the Programme Cibl\u00e9 \u201cAnticip\u201d of the PEPR Sous-sol Bien Commun (Underground Common Good).<\/p>\n Magdalena Kuchler<\/strong> (Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden)<\/strong><\/p>\n Speculating on shale: Resource-making and the \u2018politics of possibility\u2019 in Poland and the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n This paper focuses on the speculative character of knowledge and action in relation to subterranean resources, drawing on the curtailed histories of shale gas development in Poland and the UK. It adopts a political-economic orientation towards speculation rather than a narrowly financial one, seeking to understand the \u2018politics of possibility\u2019 associated with speculative resources. Specifically, we build on work in political geography to understand speculation as a form of productive \u2018resonance\u2019 replicating across epistemic, economic, and political domains. Thinking of speculation as resonance \u2013 as synchronous vibration across different areas of social life, stimulated by and intensifying uncertainty \u2013 offers a novel way of thinking about the possibilities of subterranean resources for forging political alignments. We show how speculation was integral to demonstrating the resource potential of shale in both Poland and the UK, and consider how this speculative character of shale subsequently infiltrated into economic and policy realms. Resonating across these domains, and amplifying epistemic uncertainties about shale, speculation produced a politics of possibility orientated towards \u2018gambling\u2019 on potential outcomes. By taking seriously the political possibilities of the uncertainties attached to subterranean resources, we extend the value of speculation as a concept for analysing the constitutive role of uncertainty in political-economic governance.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n B\u00e5rd Lahn<\/strong> (TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of d\u2019Oslo)<\/strong><\/p>\n Quantifying the oil economy: Unknown geological resources as future revenue <\/strong><\/p>\n Fossil fuels stored in geological reservoirs are usually not directly observable, and their extent or even existence is often fundamentally uncertain. Yet extraction-based economies rely on quantifying their value and bring them into their accounting practices. This talk will focus on how the Norwegian government brought the country\u2019s oil resources into its machineries of economic planning. Geological surveys, market forecasts and economic technologies such as discounting all played important roles in making \u2018the oil asset\u2019 a known and governable entity \u2013 even if the oil itself was yet to be discovered. This in turn affected how the oil resources were managed and ultimately extracted. On this basis, the talk will explore how geological resource-making is entangled with practices of economic planning and valuation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Magdalena Kuchler<\/strong> is a Senior Lecturer in Global Energy Systems and Associate Professor (Docent) in the Research Programme Natural Resources and Sustainable Development (NRHU) at the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University<\/a>. Her research\u00a0, at the intersection of environmental and political science, aims to unravel and scrutinize emerging energy futures, imaginaries and narratives underpinning global and regional low-carbon transitions. Her main research interests include energy security, transition and governance; fossil fuel discourses and materialities; unconventional energy sources; critical materials, sustainable resources governance and resource-making; as well as climate-energy nexus and climate change governance.<\/p>\n B\u00e5rd Lahn<\/strong> is a postoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo\u2019s Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK)<\/a>, and an affiliated researcher at CICERO Centre for International Climate Research. With a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS), he researches climate politics in Norway and at the international level. His main research interests include the role of scientific expertise in climate policymaking, the relationship between fossil fuel production and climate policy, and the North\/South dimensions of climate justice. He has also worked with a number of NGOs and activist networks on climate justice, fossil fuel extraction and other environmental issues.<\/p>\n Date: Friday, March 1, 2024<\/strong>, 11am-1pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue: Mines Paris-PSL, 60 boulevard Saint Michel,\u00a075006 Paris<\/strong>. Room<\/strong> L101<\/strong><\/p>\n The seminar is held in English<\/p>\n The session will also be streamed by videoconference. 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