2025 LASA Conference, San Fransisco (via zoom)
Organized by Javiera Barandiarán (UCSB, Global Studies) and Nushy Golriz (Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA, Geography), this workshop will feature an interdisciplinary discussion on lithium extraction and climate justice in Latin America. Participants will discuss how research can inform debates about lithium mining at different scales, support organizing efforts and communities facing mining projects, and how to contribute to knowledge on climate justice, just transitions, restorative environmental work, degrowth, and other frameworks for reconfiguring socio-ecological relations.
This event is organized by UCSB’s Center for Restorative Environmental Work, a CLAIR lab, with support from US National Science Foundation and LASA- Environment Section.