{"product_id":"extracting-the-future-lithium-in-an-era-of-energy-transition-hardcover","title":"Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Goodale\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBolivia's troubled efforts to develop a commercial lithium industry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bolivia's lithium accounts for a significant percentage of the world's known reserve. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Mark Goodale traces the development of Bolivia's closely guarded lithium project through the perspectives of a wide array of people and institutions, including workers at the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat; the state lithium company in La Paz; Latin America's first electric vehicle company; and energy entrepreneurs in Bolivia, the United States, and Germany. He points to a fundamental contradiction: a so-called green energy transition dependent on the ever-greater extraction of yet another nonrenewable resource. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But without access to Bolivia's lithium, and at megaindustrial scales that far outstrip current production, there won't be sufficient lithium supply to make the batteries needed for a truly global EV revolution. \u003ci\u003eExtracting the Future\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the lithium economy is deeply embedded in a global capitalist system that continues to rely on resource extraction, unsustainable economic growth, and geopolitical violence.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExtracting the Future\u003c\/i\u003e offers a penetrating analysis of how plans for global energy transition collide with histories of extractivism, resource colonialism, and local resistance. With ethnographic depth and geopolitical insight, Mark Goodale unravels the contradictions at the heart of our lithium-fueled future to map the tension between the promises of green energy and the realities of mineral dependency. Essential reading for all scholars of energy, environment, and global politics.--Imre Szeman, \u003ci\u003eFutures of the Sun: The Struggle over Renewable Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Weaving stories drawn from salt flats, evaporation ponds, engineering spaces, EV showrooms, public meetings, and business headquarters, among others, this book creates a portrait of lithium mining that is far more comprehensive--and narratively captivating--than any other I've come across.\"--Andrea Marston, author of \u003ci\u003eSubterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eExtracting the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, Goodale artfully documents the metamorphosis of lithium as it maneuvers through lives, labor, and geopolitical formations to illustrate how this elemental form occupies horizons of energy revolution and climatological redemption.\"--Cymene Howe, author of \u003ci\u003eEcologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Goodale\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and author of \u003ci\u003eReinventing Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Revolution in Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47507454886066,"sku":"9780520402782","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3sfdPXprB69780520402782.webp?v=1779581520","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/extracting-the-future-lithium-in-an-era-of-energy-transition-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}