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SUMMARY:From a white desert to a strategic resource: history of the commod
 ification of the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia - Daniela Sanchez-Lopez\, Univ
 ersity of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Lucy Goodman
DESCRIPTION:The Uyuni salt flat (Salar de Uyuni) is located in the Bolivia
 n high plateau\, is considered to be a natural wonder and the largest lith
 ium deposit in the world. This landscape\, once known as the white desert\
 , nowadays has become a strategic space and a fiscal reserve for an ambiti
 ous and unpresented state-owned mining project for extracting and industri
 alizing lithium carbonate. In this presentation\, I seek to examine under 
 what conditions the Uyuni salt flat has been commodified over the past 40 
 years (both under a neoliberal and post-neoliberal regimes)\, the discursi
 ve elements behind this transformation and the cultural impacts on the com
 munities surrounding the salt flat. \n\nKeywords: lithium\, governance\, p
 ost-neoliberalism
LOCATION:Room 101\, Hardy Building\, Department of Geography
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