In Plural: Tactical Solidarities Across Lithium Extractive Frontiers

At a time when access to lithium is deemed imperative, growing acts of prospection and extraction are imposed upon livelihoods around the world: new mining frontiers are erupting across the Global North, while violent extractivism thrives in the so-called Global South. Under the banner of the "green" transition, the mineral rush and its global extractivist apparatus systematically attempt to render superfluous any alternative models for human and other-than-human coexistence.

Largely atomized, community and activist struggles across disparate geographies of extraction are firmly contesting such unfair transition and its violent implications: from Chile, to Portugal and Serbia. This research project unfolds the emancipatory potential of these socio-environmental assemblages, when rendered in plural. In doing so, it asks what tactics can rearticulate solidarity across difference, against and in spite of the expanding frontiers of extractive dispossession.