The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert

Green technologies designed to mitigate climate change through renewable energy and zero-emissions transportation currently depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require ‘critical materials’. Like nickel, graphite, manganese and cobalt, lithium is a key component of batteries that store energy for...

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Main Authors: James J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán, Amanda Maxwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement 2023-06-01
Series:Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/5284
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