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X-WR-CALNAME:Geography Colloquium: "Living Minerals: Nature\, Trade\, and P
 ower in the Race for Lithium"
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Geography for the Colloquium Series talk
  with Javiera Barandiarán\, Associate Professor in Global Studies at the 
 University of California\, Santa Barbara\, on “Living Minerals: Nature\,
  Trade\, and Power in the Race for Lithium.”\n\nBarandiarán is Associat
 e Professor in Global Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barb
 ara\, and director of UCSB’s CREW Center for Restorative Environmental W
 ork. She has published four books\, including Science and Environment in C
 hile (MIT Press) and Demanding a Radical Constitution (Palgrave Macmillan)
 . For her research on lithium mining\, she won NSF research funding\, a Be
 rlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin\, and a fellowship at the R
 ockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.\n\nConsumers today are buying e
 lectric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries motivated by the belief that t
 hey are doing good and decarbonizing society. But is sustainable lithium e
 xtraction possible? In Living Minerals\, Javiera Barandiarán examines the
  history of lithium mining and uses during the 20th century\, with a speci
 fic focus on the two oldest brine-lithium mines: Silver Peak\, Nevada and 
 Salar de Atacama\, Chile\, where lithium is found as one more element in a
  liquid mix of salts\, minerals\, and organisms.\n\nFor six decades\, mini
 ng experts have failed to ask about water usage\, about waste or brine lea
 kage\, and about the ecosystem impacts in delicate deserts. Instead\, they
  have relied on various fictions about the size of reserves\, the fate of 
 leaked brine\, or the value of waste in facilitating mine development. The
 se fictions\, rooted in brine-lithium’s material qualities\, could be su
 stained thanks to powerful mining memories that celebrated resource nation
 alism. Unique in its historical and multi-dimensional approach to minerals
  and mining\, based on the novel Rights of Nature paradigm\, and the use o
 f new archival materials from both Chile and the U.S.\, the book argues th
 at decarbonizing society requires that we reckon with these realities—or
  risk deepening our dependency on an unsustainable mining industry.
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LOCATION:Condon Hall\, 106
SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium: "Living Minerals: Nature\, Trade\, and Power 
 in the Race for Lithium"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/geography-colloquium-livin
 g-minerals-nature-trade-and-power-in-the-race-for-lithium
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
CATEGORIES:Free
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