{"id":10346,"date":"2026-01-27T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/?p=10346"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:18:20","slug":"david-schroter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/2026\/01\/david-schroter\/","title":{"rendered":"David Schr\u00f6ter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Before Lithium, Borax? Navigating Temporalities of Extraction at the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>David Schr\u00f6ter est titulaire d\u2019un Master en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Utrecht. Il a r\u00e9alis\u00e9 sa th\u00e8se dans le cadre du projet FNS \u201cThe food that will feed the world: Energy industrialisation and the politics of productive sovereignty in Bolivia\u201d sous la direction du Prof. Mark Goodale (ISS). Durant sa th\u00e8se, il a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 chercheur invit\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;Institut des \u00e9tudes latino-am\u00e9ricaine de l\u2019universit\u00e9 libre de Berlin suite \u00e0 l\u2019obtention d\u2019une bourse MobiDoc. David a soutenu sa th\u00e8se le 18 d\u00e9cembre 2025.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sa th\u00e8se pr\u00e9sente une \u00e9tude ethnographique sur la mani\u00e8re dont les mineurs de borax (min\u00e9ral naturel, aussi appel\u00e9 t\u00e9traborate de sodium) de la ville de R\u00edo Grande, situ\u00e9e \u00e0 la p\u00e9riph\u00e9rie de la mine de lithium exploit\u00e9e par l&rsquo;\u00c9tat bolivien, appr\u00e9hendent et g\u00e8rent les multiples temporalit\u00e9s de l&rsquo;extraction des ressources. S&rsquo;appuyant sur 20 mois de travail ethnographique, cette th\u00e8se retrace la mani\u00e8re dont, face \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9puisement imminent des r\u00e9serves de borax, les mineurs imaginent et se pr\u00e9parent \u00e0 l&rsquo;apr\u00e8s-borax.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S&rsquo;appuyant sur l&rsquo;histoire orale, les habitants de R\u00edo Grande construisent des points de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence pour les temporalit\u00e9s de l&rsquo;extraction des ressources qu&rsquo;ils vivent et formulent leurs attentes et leurs anticipations contemporaines.&nbsp;Le mod\u00e8le organisationnel unique de SOCOMIRG, l&rsquo;entit\u00e9 mini\u00e8re de R\u00edo Grande, pr\u00e9voit un mod\u00e8le de partage des b\u00e9n\u00e9fices relativement plus \u00e9galitaire que celui des autres coop\u00e9ratives mini\u00e8res en Bolivie, tout en maintenant des hi\u00e9rarchies entre les membres et les non-membres. Cette th\u00e8se montre comment la position au sein ou en dehors de SOCOMIRG fa\u00e7onne les temporalit\u00e9s affectives \u00e0 travers lesquelles diff\u00e9rents acteurs se rapportent \u00e0 l&rsquo;extraction mini\u00e8re.&nbsp;Plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, la pratique liminale de l&rsquo;<em>eventualidad<\/em>, une p\u00e9riode d&rsquo;essai de 365 jours, a un impact profond sur les d\u00e9cisions prises par les membres aspirants, car il y a un glissement temporel entre la fin des r\u00e9serves de borax, qui passe d&rsquo;un \u00e9v\u00e9nement escompt\u00e9 \u00e0 un \u00e9v\u00e9nement anticip\u00e9, ce qui suscite des r\u00e9actions plus urgentes. S&rsquo;appuyant sur le concept d&rsquo;espaces-temps vernaculaires, cette th\u00e8se montre comment diff\u00e9rents futurs concurrents sont imagin\u00e9s et poursuivis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le projet national sur le lithium, bien que marqu\u00e9 par l&rsquo;incertitude, devient un point d&rsquo;orientation crucial pour les projets futurs. \u00c0 travers FRUTCAS, une organisation r\u00e9gionale&nbsp;<em>campesino<\/em>, les habitants de R\u00edo Grande et des communaut\u00e9s voisines se mobilisent pour tenter de fa\u00e7onner le projet lithium, en exigeant leur participation et l&rsquo;int\u00e9gration des infrastructures. En s&rsquo;appuyant sur l&rsquo;ethnographie de l&rsquo;apprentissage, les th\u00e9ories de l&rsquo;\u00e9cologie politique, les temporalit\u00e9s affectives et l&rsquo;anthropologie du travail, cette th\u00e8se propose des avanc\u00e9es m\u00e9thodologiques et conceptuelles pour l&rsquo;\u00e9tude de la temporalit\u00e9 dans les communaut\u00e9s fa\u00e7onn\u00e9es par l&rsquo;extraction des ressources.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Lithium, Borax? 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