The core aims of WOL is articulating how transitions towards post-fossil fuel societies, as portrayed by the empirical research, can inform an anthropology of natural resources concerned with the sustainability of transitions at stake in the development of decarbonisation strategies. The aim of this subproject is to bring all the empirical cases into close conversation with one another in order to generate transdisciplinary conceptual tools capable of linking and informing the different ways in which strategies for decarbonizing transport are taking, and making, place in each country.
Conceptual experimentation with the divergent knowledges and practices as portrayed by the empirical research will enable to elucidate better approaches to decarbonisation and improves sustainable collaborative practices between social and natural scientists, communities responding to ecological and social transformations, policy makers concerned with decarbonisation, and companies and stakeholders involved in lithium extraction, battery production, and battery recycling processes. The objective of this subproject is to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework to document, support, and critically think of emerging collaborations for sustainability capable of powering planetary eco-responsibility.