TY - JOUR AU - Dorn, Felix Malte PY - 2021/03/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Changing territorialities in the Argentine Andes: lithium mining at Salar de Olaroz-Cauchari and Salinas Grandes JF - DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin JA - DIE ERDE VL - 152 IS - 1 SE - Research articles DO - 10.12854/erde-2021-515 UR - https://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/515 SP - 1-17 AB - <p><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 411.047px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01119);">In the context of climate change, electro-mobility has become a symbol of hope to reduce the emissions of the growing </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 428.146px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.962884);">transport sector. At the same time, it has also renewed interest in strategic resources utilized in battery production, </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 445.246px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01592);">such as lithium. In the areas of extraction, reactions to lithium mining range from hope for paid work and increased in</span><span style="left: 704.232px; top: 445.246px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif;">-</span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 462.345px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01929);">come to resistance and conflict. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork stays realized between February 2018 and </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 479.445px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0217);">August 2019, this article associates the opposed reactions to lithium mining in the communities of the drainage basins </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 496.545px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.965266);">of Salar de Olaroz-Cauchari and Salinas Grandes-Guayatayoc with divergent territorialities. In doing so, historically </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 513.644px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03657);">different strategies – resistance and negotiation – of dealing with overlapping territorialities can be identified. Based </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 530.744px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03797);">on a reciprocal relationship, different strategies and divergent territorialities are mutually dependent. In the two case </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 547.844px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03078);">studies, the new territoriality related to the global market implies diverging socio-spatial consequences with different </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 564.943px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01319);">risks. Using the example of lithium mining, it can thus be shown that the sustainability transition continues to be based </span><span style="left: 74.5714px; top: 582.043px; font-size: 13.1536px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00741);">on social-ecological inequalities and global asymmetries of power.</span></p> ER -