Minería Del Litio Y Acumulación Por  Desposesión. El Caso De Salar Del Hombre  Muerto (1999-2016)

Lende, Sebastián Gómez

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“…Yet extracting lithium from brines requires industrial processes with intensive capital investment and expensive technological development, a challenge for the countries of the Triangle. Although the number of private companies and state ventures has proliferated (Narins, 2017), the majority of lithium extraction remains concentrated in the hands of few, largely historic companies such as Albemarle and FMC (US), Sociedad Química Minera (SQM, Chile), Tianqi and Ganfeng (China) (Gómez Lende, 2017).…”

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“…Gradually, lithium was also incorporated into the production processes of ceramic, aluminium and pharmaceutical industries. Demand, however, remained relatively minor until the 1980s, when research pioneered its use in more efficient electric batteries; lithium-ion batteries were launched in the 1990s and gradually introduced in consumer electronics (Gómez Lende, 2017). Today, lithium-ion batteries are fundamental components in digital equipment, electric cars and power storage systems.…”

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Greening extractivism: Environmental discourses and resource governance in the ‘Lithium Triangle’

Voskoboynik

Andreucci

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The lithium extractive industry is expanding, as technological and economic shifts associated with climate change mitigation goals drive global demand for lithium-ion batteries. This article explores the case of the ‘Lithium Triangle’, a region of Latin America (spanning Bolivia, Chile and Argentina) that contains the world’s largest reserves, and where environmental conflicts associated with lithium mining have proliferated. Emphasising the centrality of discourse in resource governance, we analyse the discursive strategies employed by institutional actors seeking to promote and render acceptable lithium extraction in the region. We argue that such strategies reproduce imaginaries of prosperity and modernisation long attached to oil and mineral wealth, while at the same time introducing a novel association of mining with high-tech industries, ‘green jobs’ and ‘climate-friendly’ extraction, seeking to obscure the social and ecological costs of lithium production. This inaugurates an era of ‘green extractivism’, whereby intensive resource exploitation is framed not only as compatible with climate change, but indeed as necessary to its mitigation. Our findings contribute to ongoing conversations regarding post-fossil fuel ‘transitions’, by highlighting the contradictory character of mitigation strategies that rely on mineral-intensive development.

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Section: The Political Economy and Ecology Of Lithium Extraction In T...mentioning

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Section: The Political Economy and Ecology Of Lithium Extraction In T...mentioning

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Greening extractivism: Environmental discourses and resource governance in the ‘Lithium Triangle’

Voskoboynik

Andreucci

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…In this regard, it has been pointed out that mining capitals obtained particularly high profit rates (Gómez Lende 2018). The rapid development of lithium production is no less surprising: in the first decade of the 21st century, Argentina became the second global exporter (Gómez Lende 2017). Also, the discovery of Vaca Muerta, one of the largest oil and shale gas reserves in the world, gave way to an immediate search for investors in order to exploit it.…”

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Extractivism or specificity of capital accumulation? A critique on the extractivist approach regarding the case of Argentina

Trento

2021

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The recent economic and political transformations in many Latin American countries have been increasingly analysed under the (neo-)extractivism approach. Specifically, the debate surrounding the contradictions and limitations of this development model, as well as its consequences, gained traction among scholars. In this article, we intend to put forth a critical analysis of this approach with the goal of giving an account of its explanatory power, focusing on Argentina. In order to do this, we summarize some of the more noteworthy conceptual features of (neo-)extractivism, as well as the main arguments to include Argentina as a case. Then, after presenting some immediate conceptual limitations linked to this theoretical perspective, we introduce an alternative approach in regard to the specific way in which capital accumulation takes place in Argentina, based on the Critique of Political Economy put forward by Marx in Capital, and taking the global unity of capital accumulation as a starting point. This allows us to critically engage, in the last section, with the main claims of extractivism.

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Minería Del Litio Y Acumulación Por Desposesión. El Caso De Salar Del Hombre Muerto (1999-2016)

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Greening extractivism: Environmental discourses and resource governance in the ‘Lithium Triangle’

Greening extractivism: Environmental discourses and resource governance in the ‘Lithium Triangle’

Extractivism or specificity of capital accumulation? A critique on the extractivist approach regarding the case of Argentina

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