Research
By project investigators and collaborators
Recent Publications
Kramarz, T., & Kingsbury, D. V. (2022). "Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador. " Environmental Politics.
Kingsbury, D. V. (2022). "Energy transitions in the shadow of a dictator: Decarbonizing neoliberalism and lithium extraction in Chile." The Anthropocene Review.
Blair, J. J. A., Balcázar, R. M., Barandiarán, J., & Maxwell, A. (2022). "Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining From Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America." Natural Resources Defense Council.
Kramarz, T., Mason, M., & Partzsch, L. (2022). "Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states." Environmental Politics.
Park, S. (2022). "The role of the Sovereign state in 21st century environmental disasters." Environmental Politics.
Kramarz T. (2022) "The Green Energy Transition Has an Extractivism Problem" World Politics Review
Kramarz T. (2021) "Extractive industry disasters and community responses: a typology of vulnerable subjects" Environmental Politics
Complete List
Lithium
2026
Kingsbury, D. (2026) “Extractive transitions: contested framings of decarbonization and lithium mining in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile,” Extractive Industries and Society https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X2500228X
Obaya, M. & T. Kramarz (2026) “Lithium for the global energy transition: how global forces and national legacies are driving resource-based development in South America,” World Development https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107356
2025
Barandiarán, J. (2025) Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium Cambridge, MASS: MIT Press
Chaudary, Muhammad Sikandar Ali (2025) “Lithium dreams, local struggles: Navigating the geopolitics and socio-ecological costs of a low-carbon future,” Energy Research & Social Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103952
Johnson, C.A., S. Park & T. Kramarz (2025) “The unbearable lightness of lithium governance: Legitimizing extraction for a just and sustainable energy transition,” Earth System Governancehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100235
2024
Kingsbury, D. (2024) “Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec,” Global Environmental Politicshttps://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00766
Kramarz, T., M.V Arias Mahiques, T. Allen, M. Escosteguy, D. Kingsbury, & L. Seghezzo (2024) “Redundancies, layers, and dilemmas: Comparing private standards and public regulations in lithium mining,” The Extractive Industries and Societyhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000777
Johnson, C.A., A. Clavijo, M. Lorca, & M. Olivera Andrade (2024) “Bringing the state back in the lithium triangle: An institutional analysis of resource nationalism in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia,” The Extractive Industries and Societyhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24001308?via%3Dihub
2023
Kingsbury, D.V. & A. Wilkinson (2023) “‘We are a mining region’: Lithium frontiers and extractivism in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada,” TheExtractive Industries and Societyhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214790X2300120X
Clavijo, A. (2023) Green Fair Energy transition? Challenges for equitable, inclusive, sustainable, transparent & environmentally responsible lithium mining. Policy brief. Available in: https://ilas.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Green%20Fair%20Energy%20transition_Clavijo-June%206.pdf Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Columbia, New York (NYC, EEUU)
2022
Blair, J. J. A., Balcázar, R. M., Barandiarán, J., & Maxwell, A. (2022). Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining From Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America (p. 38). Natural Resources Defense Council. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/exhausted-lithium-mining-south-america-report.pdf
Kingsbury, D. V. (2022). Lithium’s buzz: Extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. Cultural Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2034909
Escosteguy, M.; Clavijo, A.; Díaz Paz, W.F.; Hufty, M.; Seguezzo, L. (2022) “We are not allowed to speak”: Some thoughts about a consultation process around lithium mining in Northern Argentina. The Extractive Industries and Society https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X22000983?casa_token=ojfiiIRRDgYAAAAA:rM0DyWcc0PLCPa6ppQlmY7Cj9N8zjaewv5hXtu6f1vG2qChp47eq_EHLHv58j3eKg6IhT15O8M5n
Clavijo, A., Walter F. Díaz Paz, Mauricio Lorca, Manuel Olivera Andrade, Martín A. Iribarnegaray, Ingrid Garcés (2022) Environmental information access and management in the Lithium Triangle: is it transparent information? Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law RNRL doi 10.1080/02646811.2022.2058770
Iribarnegaray, Martín; Jiménez, Elizabeth; Garcés, Ingrid; Lorca, Mauricio; Escosteguy, Melisa L. ; Diaz Paz, Walter ; Clavijo, Araceli (2022) “Análisis de los marcos institucionales para la explotación de litio en Sudamérica,” En: Descarbonización en América del Sur: conexiones entre Brasil y Argentina (pp. 382-400) Universidad del Estado de Rio Grande do Norte. ISBN: 978-85-7621-326-0
2019
Barandiarán, J. (2019). Lithium and development imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. World Development, 113, 381–391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.019
Renewable Energy & Climate Change
2026
Whittaker, Stella, Craig Johnson, Nicola Ranger, Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen (2026) “From grand challenges to bold solutions: Investor perspectives on financing urban climate change adaptation,” Ecological Economics, Volume 242 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108879
2025
Chelleri L. & C.A. Johnson (2025) “On External Agents and Consultants: Do International Agencies, Consultants, and Other “Orchestrators” Truly Help Cities Reduce Climate-Related Risks?” in Debating Disaster Risk Ethical Dilemmas in the Era of Climate Change. Edited by G. Lizarralde, L. Bornstein, & T. Dhar New York: Columbia University Press
2024
Park, S., T. Kramarz, & C.A. Johnson (2024) “Governance gaps and accountability traps in renewables extractivism,” Environmental Policy & Governance https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eet.2122?af=R
Johnson, C.A. and J. Khosravani (2024) "Greening the global battery chain? Critical reflections on the EU's 2023 battery regulations," The Extractive Industries and Society https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000650?dgcid=author
2021
Kramarz, T., Park, S., & Johnson, C. (2021). Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements. Energy Research & Social Science, 74, 101902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101902
Kramarz, S. Park, & C. Johnson (2021) “Some inconvenient truths in the race to a renewable energy transition,” The Hill Times 16 June, 2021
Johnson, C.A. (2021) “Creating a commons for global climate governance: Possibilities and perils in the Paris Climate Agreement,” in P. Nayak (ed.) Making Commons Dynamic: Understanding Change Through Commonisation and Decommonisation London and New York: Routledge, pp. 211-229
Park, S., Kramarz, T., Johnson, C., and VanDeveer, S. (2019), Globalizing the Global Green New Deal: Harmful Extractives in the Green Energy Shift. Public Administration Review. https://www.publicadministrationreview.com/2019/07/16/gnd15/?fbclid=IwAR13VMn-Y3JDlLGmHD5_HYNcrNIsB9FBF7MMUUZyioh_UZN5uLph7i-U5B
Extractivism & Climate Politics in Latin America
2026
Johnson, C.A., M. McBurney & L.A. Tuaza Castro (2026) “From cultural landscapes to carbon sinks: The semiotics of green extractivism in Ecuador,” The Extractive Industries and Society https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2026.101857
2023
Johnson, C.A., T. Kramarz, M. McBurney & Y. Miraya Oscco (2023) “Accumulation through destabilization: manufacturing indigenous consent for industrial mining in Latin America,” The Journal of Peasant Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2287107
2022
McBurney, M. L.A. Tuaza, and C.A Johnson (2022) “Paying for Ecological Services in Ecuador: The political economy of structural inequality,” Journal of Agrarian Change https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12523
Kingsbury, D. V. (2022). Energy transitions in the shadow of a dictator: Decarbonizing neoliberalism and lithium extraction in Chile. The Anthropocene Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196221087790
Kramarz, T. (2022). Extractive industry disasters and community responses: A typology of vulnerable subjects. Environmental Politics, 31(1), 89–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1978198
Kramarz, T., & Kingsbury, D. V. (2022). Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador. Environmental Politics, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2090388
Kramarz, T., Mason, M., & Partzsch, L. (2022). Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states. Environmental Politics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2044219
Park, S. (2022). The role of the Sovereign state in 21st century environmental disasters. Environmental Politics, 31(1), 8–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1892983
2021
McBurney, M., L.A. Tuaza, C. Ayol & C.A. Johnson (2021) “Land and livelihood in the age of COVID-19: Implications for Indigenous food producers in Ecuador,” Journal of Agrarian Change https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12417
Kingsbury, D. V. (2021). Latin American Extractivism and (or after) the Left. Latin American Research Review, 56(4), 977–987. https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.1668
Kramarz, T., & Kingsbury, D. V. (2021). Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador: The People’s Oil? Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70963-1
Tuaza Castro, L., Johnson, C., McBurney, M., & Isla, A. (2021). El CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO Y LAS COMUNIDADES INDÍGENAS EN LOS ANDES DEL ECUADOR. https://doi.org/10.37135/u.editorial.05.40
2020
Agrawal, A., Banfield, J., Cho, S., Kramarz, T., & Zhao, E. (2020). Community Vulnerability to Extractive Industry Disasters. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures (pp. 1–13). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_179-1
Barandiarán, J. (2020). Documenting rubble to shift baselines: Environmental assessments and damaged glaciers in Chile. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 3(1), 58–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619873317
Kingsbury, D. V. (2020). Combined and uneven energy transitions: Reactive decarbonization in Cuba and Venezuela. Journal of Political Ecology, 27, 558–579. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23501
2019
Barandiaran, J., & Rubiano-Galvis, S. (2019). An empirical study of EIA litigation involving energy facilities in Chile and Colombia. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 79, 106311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106311
2018
Barandiarán, J. (2018). Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy. MIT Press.
Johnson, C. (2018). Climate, migration and displacement: Exploring the politics of preventative action. In Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315638843-27/climate-migration-displacement-craig-johnson
2017
Walsh, C., & Barandiaran, J. (2017). Production/destruction in Latin America. Journal of Political Ecology, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.2458/v24i1.20962
2016
Barandiaran, J. (2016). The authority of rules in Chile’s contentious environmental politics. Environmental Politics, 25(6), 1013–1033. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2016.1218156