Less Shipwrecks, More Navigators: Decolonial Perspectives on Bolivian Lithium Extraction
2022/2023 Submission
Abstract
Bolivian lithium is a highly contested resource with environmental, economic, and cultural significance to actors at both local and international levels. This paper employs an ethics of decolonial pluriversality to critically evaluate the rival claims to truth being made by the various lithium stakeholders. Through this lens, it is found that an approach that centres the experience of Indigenous Bolivians is favourable under that ethical framework.
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