A Project of Autonomy: Renegotiating the Border as a Condition of Collectivity Part 2 Dissertation 2023 Kieran Lindsay University of Dundee | UK The lithium triangle, situated at the borders of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, has been embroiled in a series of border disputes and trade disagreements since colonisation. Its economy is now defined by a neo-extractivism, containing the largest deposits of lithium in the world, and deeply intertwined into the world’s resource markets. ‘A Project of Autonomy’ operates along a multi-scalar path, recognising the overlapping and contentious schisms which form through its position in the global assemblage.The thesis forms along two key axes: first, across the contested border lines of the nation state, and second through the village, unambiguously ‘local’ in its functioning but entwined into global flows. Within these two key axes, a series of exploratory outputs were formed, dividing the body of work into seven key sections that encompass the complexities of the relationships formed between the local and global issues that dominate everyday life. Functioning as a research output that worked in dialogue with a design project, the thesis unpicks the geopolitics and socio-politics of resource extraction, questioning the perceived advancement of ‘green’ extraction. Crucially, it dissects the ways in which multi-scalar forms of resistance are intrinsically linked between the local and global. Tutor(s) Yorgos Berdos