Under the so-called energy transition, a global extractivist imperative is being directed at lithium. In its most recent expansion across Europe, corporate and national interests have converged to impose geographies of extraction that disregard existing socio-environmental relationships, their modes of production and existence. Although dispersed, communal and activist struggles are firmly contesting such unfair transition and its violent implications: from the mountains of northern Portugal, through the valleys of western Serbia, to the shores of southern Greenland.

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.

This doctoral research project is ongoing.