Dear all,
[sorry for cross-posting] [Reminder] [Feel free to circulate this in you your networks]
The
BhA
Webinar #3: Geopolitics of Lithium Off-Sites: Infrastructures, Territories and Geologies
will take place in one week, we would love to welcome you there!
- Speakers:
Marina Weinberg, Universidad Católica del Norte & Valentina Figueroa Larre, Universidad Católica del Norte
- Moderator:
Thierry Rodon, Université Laval
- Date:
23 April, 16:00-17:00 CEST
- Zoom link:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63528857188?pwd=L5PrB7ouKGlGi4LIMCaVJKR2CA4ntL.1
- Details
here
- Description:
LiOness is an interdisciplinary research project based in northern Chile that examines the geopolitics of lithium
through the concept of “off-sites.” In this webinar the speakers will discuss their approach to trace how lithium circulates across infrastructures, territories, and
geoecologies, displacing materials, labor, and environmental impacts, rather than focusing solely on extraction sites. Combining social and natural sciences, the project studies how mining reshapes landscapes and everyday life
in places such as the Atacama Desert and coastal zones. LiOness critically engages with energy transition debates, highlighting uneven effects, territorial conflicts, and situated forms of knowledge, while connecting local experiences
with global processes of resource governance and extraction.
- Note:
The webinar will be recorded and will be made available to the public on YouTube and the
BhA website. The Q&A part of the webinar
will not be made public.
If you would like us to
FEATURE YOUR WORK (e.g., articles, policy briefs, books, videos, podcasts, blogs …) on the platform
Beyond Hot Air – Conversations around critical raw materials supply for the ‘green’ transition
or if you are interested in contributing to the network and the conversation platform in any way, just drop us a line:
bha....@univie.ac.at
Best wishes,
the Beyond Hot Air
team

‘Beyond
Hot Air. Conversations around critical raw materials supply for the ‘green’ transition’ is a sub-project to the ‘MinErAL
– Knowledge Network on Mining Encounters and Indigenous Sustainable Livelihoods’ funded by
SSHRC
– Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.