Lithium mining & not-so-green/clean/renewable energy/technology
  • Todd C. Frankel and Peter Whoriskey, “Tossed Aside in the ‘White Gold’ Rush,” The Washington Post, December 9, 2016. Link
  • Dave Sherwood, “A Water Fight in Chile’s Atacama Raises Questions over Lithium Mining,” Reuters, October 18, 2018. Link
  • Louise Sahagun, “A War Is Brewing over Lithium Mining at the Edge of Death Valley,” Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2019. Link
  • Di Felice, L.J., Ripa, M., and Giampietro, M., Deep Decarbonisation from a Biophysical Perspective: GHG Emissions of a Renewable Electricity Transformation in the EU. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3685. Open Access link
  • Tilak Doshi, "The Dirty Secrets Of ‘Clean’ Electric Vehicles," Forbes, August 2, 2020. Link 
What's the alternative?
  • War on Want and London Mining Network. A Just(ice) Transition is a Post-Extractive Transition: Centering the extractive frontier in climate justice. PDF link. 
  • Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (London: Marion Boyers, 2001).
  • The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save the Earth. Link
  • Daniel Aldana Cohen & Thea Riofrancos (2020) Latin America’s Green New Deal, NACLA Report on the Americas, 52:2, 117-121, DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2020.1768726.
Colonialism and Decolonization
  • Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012) Decolonization is Not a Metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1(1), 1-40. Link
  • Indigenous Action (2020) Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto. Link
  • Ward Churchill and Winona LaDuke (1986) Native America: The political economy of radioactive colonialism, Insurgent Sociologist, 13(3), 51-78.
Decolonial Feminist Science & Research
  • Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Zed Books.
  • Sandra Harding. "Conclusion: What Is Feminist Science?" In Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives, 296-312. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1hhfnmg.15
  • Alison Wylie. "Feminist Philosophy of Science: Standpoint Matters." Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 86, no. 2 (2012): 47-76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43661298
  • Sophie Wang (2016) Science Under the Scope. Free Radicals Blog. Webcomic link
  • D. Roy (2004). Feminist Theory in Science: Working Toward a Practical Transformation. Hypatia, 19(1), 255-279. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb01277.x. PDF link
Solidarity
  • Klee Benally (2016) Accomplices Not Allies, Indigenous Action Media. PDF link 
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