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GERMINATIONS: Ecological Violence and Documentary Cinema

GERMINATIONS: Ecological Violence and Documentary Cinema: Lithium Mining Conflicts from Covas do Barroso to the Andean Puna Speaker: Salomé Lopes Coelho (Utrecht University) Chairs: Gianfranco Selgas (Stockholm University), Jamille Pinheiro Dias (ILCS/SAS), Paul Merchant (University of Bristol) 5 February 2026 This presentation examines documentary practices addressing lithium extraction conflicts in Covas do Barroso and the Andean Puna, focusing on how cinema constructs the memory of mining as ecological violence. It traces intersections through three figures—dilemma, commons, and backwardness—attending to histories of resistance, dispossession, and lifeways in each context. The films under discussion include science communication works alongside collaborative and experimental documentaries, ranging from institutional productions that support extractivist expansion to community-based projects that foreground local knowledge and contest mining projects, within the framework of the so-called green transition. These works render mining thinkable, legitimate, or contested, materialising the entanglements of ecological degradation with other histories of violence, including colonialism. Cinema thus functions as a site of memory of ecoviolence, enacting relational and embodied spaces where environmental harm, resistance, and accountability are registered and disputed, reshaping transnational imaginaries of extraction.