Publications
Book
2023. Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771545/salvaging-empire/#bookTabs=1
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2023. "From Watershed Moment to Hydrosocial Movement: Patagonia Without Dams and the Free-Flowing Rivers Network in Chile.” Human Organization 82 (3): 288–303 (co-authored with Grant Gutierrez and Ramón Balcázar M.). https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-82.3.288.
2023. “The Alterlives of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert.” International Development Policy 16 (co-authored with Ramón Balcázar M., Javiera Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell). https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/5284
2022. “Tracking Penguins, Sensing Petroleum: ‘Data Gaps’ and the Politics of Marine Ecology in the South Atlantic.” Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space. Vol. 5 (1): 60-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619882938
2019. “South Atlantic Universals: Science, Sovereignty and Self-Determination inthe Falkland Islands (Malvinas).” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. Vol. 2 (1): 220-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2019.1633225
2019. “Splintered Hinterlands: Public Anthropology, Environmental Advocacy and Indigenous Sovereignty.” Journal of Ethnobiology. Vol. 39 (1): 32-49. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-39.1.32
2017. “Settler Indigeneity and the Eradication of the Non-Native: Self-Determination and Biosecurity in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI). Vol. 23 (3): 580-602. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12653
Refereed Reports
2022. “Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America.” Report published by NRDC (R: 21-10-A). April 26 (with Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell). https://www.nrdc.org/resources/exhausted-how-we-can-stop-lithium-mining-depleting-water-resources-draining-wetlands-and
Edited Collections
2022. “Negotiating the Crisis: Critical Perspectives on Climate Governance.” Cultural Anthropology: Hot Spots, Fieldsites, June 23 (co-edited with Cynthia Isenhour). https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/negotiating-the-crisis
Book Chapters
2023. “The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert.” In The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures, edited by Filipe Calvo, Matthew Archer, and Asanda Benya. Leiden; Boston: Brill Nijhoff (with Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán, and Amanda Maxwell). https://brill.com/display/title/64309
2022. “Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC).” In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability, edited by Robert Brinkmann. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_161-1
2022. “Data Gaps: Penguin Science and Petrostate Formation in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).” In The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics, edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost, 251-266. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496232786/
2020. “Extractivismo del Litio y el Problema de la Escala: Acción Climática Global y Justicia Ambiental Local.” In Salares Andinos: Ecología de Saberes por la Protección de Nuestros Salares y Humedales, edited by Bárbara Jerez Henríquez, Sergio Uribe Sierra and Ramón Morales Balcázar, 83-95. Santiago: Fundación Tantí. https://cl.boell.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Libro_Salares%20Andinos_version_definitiva_castellano.pdf
2006. “Just Garments, a worker-run factory tries to wring the sweat out of the apparel business.” In Current Economic Issues. 10th edition. Boston: Dollars & Sense. Originally published in Dollars & Sense. September/October 2005: 261 (with Daniel Fireside).
Book Reviews
2015. Reseña bibliográfica Todo lo que necesitás saber sobre Malvinas por Federico Lorenz. Páginas. Vol. 7 (13): 231-235. http://paginas.rosario-conicet.gob.ar/ojs/index.php/RevPaginas
2014. Review Essay “Recent Studies of Oil in Latin America: Conflicted Consultancy, Peaked Patrimony and Neoliberalismo.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Vol. 19 (3): 531-537. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12132
2014. Review of Land by Derek Hall. The Journal of Agrarian Change. Vol. 14 (4): 595-598. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12076
2013. Review of The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity by Judith Noemí Freidenberg. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. Vol. 18 (3): 539-541. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12053
2013. Review of Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas edited by John-Andrew McNeish and Owen Logan. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE). Vol. 35 (1): 64-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12007
Public Writing and Advocacy
2023. "The Falklands/Malvinas and Argentina's Thatcherite Turn." North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), December 13. https://nacla.org/argentina-thatcherite-turn-milei-falklands-malvinas
2023. "Avoiding Methodological Nationalism in a Disputed Overseas Territory." University of Exeter: Research and Innovation Blog, July 18. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/sci/research/currentprojects/thefutureofglobalbritain/blogs/#tab3
2022. “Plurinational Climate Action: Environmental Governance Beyond Green Extractivism.” Cultural Anthropology: Hot Spots, Fieldsites, June 23 (co-authored with Ramón Balcázar). https://culanth.org/fieldsights/plurinational-climate-action-environmental-governance-beyond-green-extractivism
2022. “Introduction: Negotiating the Crisis: Critical Perspectives on Climate Governance.” Cultural Anthropology: Hot Spots, Fieldsites, June 23 (co-authored with Cynthia Isenhour). https://culanth.org/fieldsights/introduction-negotiating-the-crisis
2022. “Lithium Mining Must Not Dry Up the Atacama Desert.” NRDC Expert Blog. May 12 (with Amanda Maxwell). https://www.nrdc.org/experts/amandamaxwell/lithium-mining-must-not-do-more-harm-good
2019. “Water Is a Right: The Parallel COP in Chile.” NRDC Expert Blog. December 23 (with Jessica Carey-Webb). https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jessica-carey-webb/water-right-parallel-cop-santiago
2019. “Revisiting Nahuelbuta (1 of 2).” NRDC Expert Blog. August 9. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/amanda-maxwell/revisiting-nahuelbuta-1-2
2019. “Revisiting Nahuelbuta (2 of 2).” NRDC Expert Blog. August 9. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/amanda-maxwell/revisiting-nahuelbuta-2-2
2018. “International Day of Indigenous Peoples: Free Nahuelbuta.” NRDC Expert Blog. August 9. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/international-day-indigenous-peoples-free-nahuelbuta
2018. “Chile’s River Protector Network Rejects Alto Maipo Complex.” NRDC Expert Blog. July 9 (with Andrea Becerra). https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/chiles-river-protector-network-rejects-alto-maipo-complex
2018. “Indigenous Lands in Canada & Colombia on World Heritage List.” NRDC Expert Blog. July 2 (with Jennifer Skene). https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/indigenous-lands-canada-colombia-world-heritage-list
2018. “NAFTA to Canada: Face the Facts on Tar Sands Tailings Ponds.” NRDC Expert Blog. May 10. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/nafta-canada-face-facts-tar-sands-tailings-ponds
2018. “Conservation and Community in Laguna San Ignacio.” NRDC Expert Blog. May 3. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/conservation-and-community-laguna-san-ignacio
2018. “World Water Day: Chile’s New Wave of River Protectors.” NRDC Expert Blog. April 6. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/world-water-day-chiles-new-wave-river-protectors
2018. “Chilean Courts Protect Patagonia’s Puelo and Cuervo Rivers.” NRDC Expert Blog. January 9. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/chilean-courts-protect-patagonias-puelo-and-cuervo-rivers
2017. “Tar Sands Tailings Ponds: Out of Canada’s Control.” NRDC Expert Blog. December 21. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/tar-sands-tailings-ponds-out-canadas-control
2017. “Latin America 2017: Top Three Green Trends.” NRDC Expert Blog. December 19 (with Andrés Anchondo). https://www.nrdc.org/experts/james-blair/latin-america-2017-top-three-green-trends
2017. “Protect Chile’s Patagonia with Clean Energy Alternatives to Mega Dams.” ESRI Story Map hosted on NRDC Expert Blog. February 7 (with Amanda Maxwell and Andrea Becerra). https://www.nrdc.org/resources/protect-chiles-patagonia-clean-energy-alternatives-mega-dams
2016. “The Limits of Environmentalism at Earth’s End: Reindeer Eradication and the Heritage of Hunting in the Sub-Antarctic.” Engagement, blog published by the Anthropology and Environment Society. December 20. https://aesengagement.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/the-limits-of-environmentalism-at-earths-end-reindeer-eradication-and-the-heritage-of-hunting-in-the-sub-antarctic/
2016. “Brexit’s South American Ripple Effect.” North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). August 4. http://nacla.org/news/2016/08/04/brexit%E2%80%99s-south-american-ripple-effect
2014. “Treasure Islands? Oil and Gas in the Falklands.” The Economist. February 28. http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/02/oil-and-gas-falklands
2013. “Self-Determined: Argentina, The Falklands and the UN.” The Economist. August 8. http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/08/argentina-falklands-and-un
2013. “Referendum rewound: The Falkland Islands.” The Economist. June 21. http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/06/falkland-islands
2013. “Loud and clear: The Falklands referendum.” The Economist. Print edition, March 16-22: 40. https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2013/03/16/loud-and-clear
2013. “Sending their message: The Falkland Islands’ referendum.” The Economist. March 11. http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/03/falkland-islands-referendum
