RSA Research Network: EdgeNet: Green Dreams in Peripheral Development Webinar: Securitised Resource Peripheries

04 February 2026 to 04 February 2026
Online

09.00-10.30 GMT / 10.00-11.30 CET / 20.00-21.30 Sydney, Australia

 

From time immemorial, people have used peripheries to extract different types of resources.  Some peripheries became valuable because of particular structural conditions, whereas others were rich in desirable and valuable ecologies and geologies.  In this Green Dreams in Peripheral Development webinar, we consider how resource peripheries have become securitised in the changing geopolitical climate, and ask if this could see peripheries becomede-peripheralised.

 

Speakers: Joanie Willett (University of Exeter); Madeliene Eriksson (University of Umea); Al Rainnie, University of South Australia; Darryn Snell, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Harry Pitts, University of Exeter.

 

9:00 Welcome and Introductions
9:10 Harry Pitts – Geopolitics and Securitisation
9:15 Madeliene Eriksson – Northern Sweden and the Arctic
9:20 Al Rainnie
9:25 Darryn Snell
9:30 Joanie Willett – Rethinking Cornwall UK
9:35 Panel Discussion – Can securitisation de-peripheralise our peripheries?
10:00 Audience questions
10:25 Roundup
10:30 Close

 

*all times GMT. Please use World Time Buddy to work out the correct time where you are.

 

Contact nicola.pilling@regionalstudies.org if you need assistance


 

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