Attend this lecture where Dr. Amanda Power will do a presentation on the topic of "Salvation, alienation and medieval sacrifice zones".

Wednesday, April 23, 13:30-15:00.

Place: Nobelparken, building 1463-515.

Registration: Not required.

See the poster for the lecture and visit the facebookevent. 

About the lecture: 

‘Sacrifice zones’ are areas made unliveable by intensive extraction and pollution. They tend to be concentrated in poorer regions, but they exist on many scales and degrees of visibility. There is a deep-rooted, dangerous acceptance of the idea that some places and people may be sacrificed for the perceived good of society. More people are realising that they are themselves living in sacrifice zones. But while they may contest where the boundaries are drawn, many continue to accept the principle – even as it destabilises the conditions for life. It is a matter of urgency for historians to discover and explain how we arrived in this predicament. Only by identifying its ideological foundations and its governing purposes have we any chance of dismantling it. This paper explores the development, institutionalisation and inculcation of the notion that humans needed salvation from their lives on earth. It examines the far-reaching implications of this central claim and the value-systems of alienation and transcendence that grew up around it.