Bibliographic record
Abstract
The chapter presents a narrative inquiry into the burgeoning lithium industry in Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley, a region historically shaped by centuries of colonial extraction and home to one of the country’s largest concentrations of Quilombola communities. Through a blend of personal reportage and critical analysis, the chapter argues that the contemporary rush for “green lithium” is not a departure from but a continuation of historical patterns of dispossession and environmental degradation. It positions the Jequitinhonha Valley as a critical site where the global demand for transition minerals, driven by Canadian and other international capital, collides with the land, water, and cultural sovereignty of Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples. The chapter examines the multifaceted nature of community resistance. This resistance ranges from organized political protest against the violation of land and water rights, to the quiet, persistent practices of cultural and spiritual survival. By exploring spaces such as a Black barbershop, a local church with Afro-syncretic iconography, and a city bus transformed by defiant joy, the analysis highlights what is termed “quilombo cosmologies”—world-making practices rooted in ancestral knowledge that refuse the reductionist logic of extraction. Ultimately, the chapter scrutinizes the narrative of “sustainable mining” and the “green transition,” revealing it to be an assault on the ecological knowledge, health autonomy, and entire cultural-ecological systems of the communities who are the custodians of the land.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.087 | 0.024 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".