Digital data—including technologically-mediated data generated by blockchain-enabled
traceability—is performing an increasingly integral role in extractive operations, but scarce …

Over the last 150 years or so engineers, farmers, scientists, and many others around the
globe have gained access to the waters that lie underground with drilling technology, pumps …

As the drive for global electrification proceeds, new pressures are placed on agrarian
environments in areas abundant in key minerals for electric batteries. The so-called lithium …

The emergence of a narrative connecting the production of lithium and its derivatives to the
process of decarbonization of the planetary energy matrix obscures the profound …

The global transition to low-carbon technologies has accelerated the extraction of lithium. Its
associated implications on local socio-environmental systems, however, are often …

Mining projects interact with diverse concurrent environmental, social and governance
(ESG) risks inherent to the local hosting context. These risks known as" situated risks''usually …

Lithium mining in Argentina is often associated to social injustices, unequal access to
information, and conflicts around issues such as water consumption. Different stakeholders …

This contribution points out that while the importance of hydrologic, geomorphic, ecological,
temporal, and socio‐cultural connectivity in the functioning of hydrosystems has been …

Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the
southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been …

Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its
political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the …