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.

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.

This doctoral research project is ongoing.