Mining indigenous territories: Consensus, tensions and ambivalences in the Salar de Atacama
Abstract
Historical and ethnographic methods applied to mining-community relations in Salar de Atacama. Indigenous positions understood through concept of "ambivalence, not contradiction". Territorial struggles concern water, biodiversity, identity, and benefits sharing. Lithium company-community agreements generate inter- and intra- community tensions. The ethics of a lithium-powered energy transition must be critically examined.
- Publication:
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Extractive Industries and Society
- Pub Date:
- March 2022
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2022ExIS....901047L
- Keywords:
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- Atacama Salt Flat;
- Indigeneity;
- Lithium;
- Mining;
- Territoriality