[113-2, 2025]
"Extractivist Fractures in the #Atacama Desert: An Oasis of Contradictions"
>> The article examines the socioecological ‘fractures’ emerging from lithium extraction in the #AtacamaSaltFlat, a massive, high-altitude saline formation on the Chilean Andean #Mountain Range, and one of the world’s richest #lithium reserves. Conceptualized as an ‘oasis of contradictions,’ the Atacama’s territory is simultaneously, a site for the global ‘green’ transition and a space of deepening #dispossession—where transnational demands for lithium collide with Indigenous territorialities.
https://journals.openedition.org/rga/15648
#Chili #extractivism #IndigenousPeople