CLACS Seminar: Austin Zeiderman (LSE) "Racial Ecologies in Fluvial Colombia"
| Dates: | 4 February 2026 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Austin Zeiderman |
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This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Wed 4 Feb 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2
Abstract: The Magdalena River, linking Colombia’s Andean interior and Caribbean coast, long served as a conduit for the expansion of colonialism and capitalism in the Americas. Now a state-backed megaproject seeks to transform the waterway into a logistics corridor through a series of engineering works. In this talk, Austin Zeiderman presents his 2025 book, Artery, which relates the Magdalena’s fraught past and uncertain future to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. He engages with debates across the social sciences and humanities to examine how racial orders shape ecologies and infrastructures. The river is now a rich site for examining the regimes of extractivism and inequality that continue to afflict the modern world.
Austin Zeiderman is a Professor of Geography at the LSE, University of London.
Speaker
Austin Zeiderman
Role: Professor of Geography
Organisation: LSE, University of London.
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A214
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
