Genealogies of Extractivist Entanglement in Bolivia
This seminar will examine the findings from a four-year ethnographic study of Bolivia’s contested efforts to industrialize the country’s massive lithium reserves, which are destined for use in lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicles, key technologies of the green energy transition. In framing the ethnography of this fraught project within longer histories of extractivism and resource utopianism, I hope to show how the anthropology of energy brings much-needed nuance to wider debates over the contradictions and ultimate limitations of energy transition and climate crisis mitigation.
Date:
2 February 2024, 15:15 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Venue:
64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Speaker:
Mark Goodale (Lausanne)
Organising department:
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Part of:
Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Kate Atherton
