Security and corporate sovereignty: managing life and death in a Colombian coal region

  • Line Jespersgaard Jakobsen (Speaker)

    Activity: Talk or Presentation › Presentation/Speaker at conference, seminar, workshop etc.

    Description

    The paper explores mining corporations’ hard and soft security practices when they get entangled in everyday biopolitical management of life and death. The central 'site' for the paper is the 150 km rail line constructed in the Colombian La Guajira peninsula in 1983 to transport coal from one of the world’s biggest open-pit coal mines to the harbor. The paper is based on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork.
    Period30 Aug 2019
    Event titleGovernance at the Edge of the State
    Event typeConference
    LocationCopenhagen, DenmarkShow on map
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

    Keywords

    • Colombia
    • Mining
    • Corporate security
    • Biopolitics
    • Corporate Sovereignty