The politics of "green" extraction frontiers: mapping metals and mineral mining conflicts related to the energy transition in the Americas
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- dc.contributor.author Walter, Mariana
- dc.contributor.author Deniau, Yannick
- dc.contributor.author Herrera Vargas, Viviana
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-20T07:12:39Z
- dc.date.available 2025-01-20T07:12:39Z
- dc.date.issued 2024
- dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 26-12-2024
- dc.description.abstract We document how the extraction of metals and minerals, deemed critical for green growth and its energy transition, is expanding and being resisted in the Americas. Researchers and socio-environmental organizations co-produced 25 conflicts related to lithium, copper, and graphite mining. We examine mechanisms and discourses shaping the politics of ‘green’ extraction frontiers expansion. Governments and companies are promoting extraction in the name of an urgent planetary salvation. Socio-environmental movements claim that their territories are being turned into sacrifice zones, with an exacerbation of social vulnerabilities and impacts on sensitive and poorly known ecosystems, water, and cultural heritage sites. While criminalization and violence against local protestors is recurrent in the South, allegations of inadequate and poor decision-making and participation procedures occur across the continent. In Canada and the United States, fast-tracked permitting processes foster unrest. Global competition to secure access to critical materials is reconfiguring extraction frontiers, fueling resistance and creating tension on both globalization and deglobalization dynamics.
- dc.description.sponsorship The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was possible given the support of the project ENVJustice (ERC Advanced Grant GA 695446), Balzan Prize 2020, 11th Hour Project, ECHO Foundation, Ford Foundation, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Western Mining Action Network. Mariana Walter acknowledges the support of the Ramón y Cajal research grant of the Spanish Ministry of Science (RYC2022-037653-I).
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- dc.identifier.citation Walter M, Deniau Y, Herrera Vargas V. The politics of "green" extraction frontiers: mapping metals and mineral mining conflicts related to the energy transition in the Americas. Critical Sociology. 2024 Dec 26. DOI: 10.1177/08969205241305963
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08969205241305963
- dc.identifier.issn 0896-9205
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69173
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher SAGE Publications
- dc.relation.ispartof Critical Sociology. 2024 Dec 26
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/695446
- dc.rights Walter M, Deniau Y, Herrera Vargas V, The politics of "green" extraction frontiers: mapping metals and mineral mining conflicts related to the energy transition in the Americas, Critical Sociology. 2024 Dec 26. Copyright © 2024 SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/08969205241305963.
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- dc.subject.keyword Socio-environmental conflict
- dc.subject.keyword Extractive conflicts
- dc.subject.keyword Political ecology
- dc.subject.keyword Social metabolism
- dc.subject.keyword Deglobalization
- dc.subject.keyword Environmental justice
- dc.subject.keyword Knowledge co-production
- dc.subject.keyword Energy transition
- dc.title The politics of "green" extraction frontiers: mapping metals and mineral mining conflicts related to the energy transition in the Americas
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