Photo: Professor Sandro Mezzadra (Personal collection)

The IEAT Cosmópolis: meta-method research group will welcome, on September 19th, professor Sandro Mezzadra, from the University of Bologna, in Italy, for a lecture open to the general public. The event will take place in the auditorium of the UFMG School of Architecture, starting at 9 am.

The lecture will be held in Spanish, without translation into Portuguese. Participation certificates will be issued to those who register through the UFMG Event Management system and sign the attendance list on the day of the event.

In the lecture Bodies, infrastructure, borders: logistics of extraction, Sandro Mezzadra will speak, based on his studies, about the scales of extraction, which is a concept used to formalize the set of operations that organize contemporary capitalism. One of the organizers of the event, professor Thiago Canettieri, from the Department of Urban Planning at the UFMG School of Architecture, explains that extractive operations are processes permeated by violent dynamics that affect bodies, and are intertwined with produced infrastructures, and produce borders in their areas. multiple meanings. “We hope that the dialogue with Professor Mezzadra’s work can lead to a reflection on extraction practices and how they intertwine with forms of violence and illegalism, dependent territories and overexploited labor, constitutive characteristics of peripheral countries and their economies extractivists, as is the case in Brazil”, he highlights.

The lecture will highlight the relevance of the notions of logistics and extraction for understanding the current reality from a transdisciplinary and trans-scalar perspective, considering them not only as explanatory categories of a specific sector of the circulation of goods, but as a type of rationality that orders and secures global supply chains.

About the guest

Sandro Mezzadra teaches political theory at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University and the Center for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His recent work has focused on the relationships between globalization, migration and capitalism, contemporary capitalism and postcolonial critique.