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This chapter discusses the legal construction of nature from a geo-legal perspective that separates surface and geological strata, denying circulation and links between them. Various geo-legal strategies exclude their activities from the normative framework that regulates groundwater exploitation while discursively minimizing the negative environmental externalities produced. The diachronic and multitiered approach allows us to denaturalize Chile’s legal mining and water regimes. Several authors have highlighted states’ intentionality in creating natural resource legislation designed to perpetuate colonial logics and dispossess indigenous populations. The chapter looks at how the industry stabilizes a lithium-producing stratum by establishing a withdrawal loop on a very extensive hydrological cycle (flow, aquifer, evaporation).

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Constructing Resources for the Transition: Geo-legal Approaches to Lithium-Bearing Brines in South America’s Salt Flats

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    2025年

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  • Marie Forget,
  • Vincent Bos,
  • Chloé Nicolas-Artero

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This chapter discusses the legal construction of nature from a geo-legal perspective that separates surface and geological strata, denying circulation and links between them. Various geo-legal strategies exclude their activities from the normative framework that regulates groundwater exploitation while discursively minimizing the negative environmental externalities produced. The diachronic and multitiered approach allows us to denaturalize Chile’s legal mining and water regimes. Several authors have highlighted states’ intentionality in creating natural resource legislation designed to perpetuate colonial logics and dispossess indigenous populations. The chapter looks at how the industry stabilizes a lithium-producing stratum by establishing a withdrawal loop on a very extensive hydrological cycle (flow, aquifer, evaporation).