This event brings together scholars working on new and old extractivist frontiers associated with the green energy transition across the Americas. From lithium mining in Chile to solar power in California to different kinds of energy extraction in Indigenous Nations, the panel will consider what new dreams of prosperity, political controversies and zones of sacrifice are emerging today in the context of the green energy transition, and which new political, ethical and environmental challenges we face as rising political economies of energy weave themselves into old and new spaces of capitalist extraction.

PARTICIPANTS

Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Dustin Mulvaney, Professor in the Environmental Studies at San José State University

Teresa Montoya, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago

Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Arizona

DISCUSSANT

James Blair, Assistant Professor of Geography and Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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This event is co-sponsored by the USC Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and the USC Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies with support from the Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminar Program.