Introduction
My research focuses on resource extraction, (alternatives to) development, energy transitions, and political ecology in Latin America. I am the co-founder of the Post/Extractivisms Working Group, an interdisciplinary network of scholars and activists that focuses on the effects of resource extraction on development trajectories, human rights, landscapes, livelihoods, and imaginaries. I've coordinated student experiential learning expeditions in Ecuador examining failed attempts at supply side decarbonization and am currently at work on a larger project examining the extractive frontiers of green energy supply chains. This later work focuses on lithium mining in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile while also drawing linkages to mining, finance, and technology sectors in Canada.
I am currently Assistant Professor (teaching stream) in Political Science at the University of Toronto and Vice President of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Recent publications of potential interest include:
_Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador: The People’s Oil?_ with Teresa Kramarz. 2021, Palgrave.
“Combined and Uneven Energy Transitions: Reactive Decarbonization in Cuba and Venezuela” (2020) Journal of Political Ecology 27: 558-579
“On PetroCaribe: Petropolitics, Energopower, and Post-Neoliberal Development in the Caribbean Energy Region” with Gustav Cedarlöf (2019) Political Geography 72: 124-133.
“Populism or Petrostate?: The Afterlives of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative in Ecuador” with Teresa Kramarz and Kyle Jacques (2018) Society and Natural Resources 32(5): 530-547.