Rare earths in Jequié-Bahía: green extractivisms, sociotechnical networks, and ontological-political alternatives in response to the composition of minable places within the context of energy-technological transitions.
rare earths; green mining; sociotechnical networks; energy transition; political ontologies.
This research focuses on extractive ventures emerging within the context of the green-technological energy transition, questioning the promises of “green mining” and the asymmetries it reproduces—environmental, epistemic, and ontological. The study aims to analyze how rare earth mining takes shape through sociotechnical networks (State, technoscience, corporations) in Jequié (Bahia, Brazil); unveiling how different actors build alternative policies in response to the mineralization of the territory in the context of the open-pit mining project “Campo Grande.”