Javiera Barandiarán
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 240962 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Javiera Barandiarán |
| NOMBRES | Javiera |
| APELLIDO | Barandiarán |
| FIRMA | BARANDIARÁN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6435-675X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Glaciares y Constitución Aproximaciones al Debate Constitucional y Ciudadano Chileno, 1980-2023
The 2019-2023 period in Chile was particularly unusual. A massive protest challenged the political and economic system inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, paving the way to vote for a new Constitution that replaced the one approved prior to the return of democracy. The public debate around the content and spirit of the new Constitution also witnessed the emergence of climate change and glaciers as political agents. Drawing from o…
The Exhaustion of People and Environment in an Energy Transition
Chile is experiencing a successful energy transition, with emissions falling as new solar and wind arrays replace coal-fired power plants. As the mining industry switches to renewable electricity, many in power celebrate this as “sustainable mining,” but not fenceline communities, who feel exhausted by the scale and density of extraction and construction. This article bridges scholarship on the energy transition and the critical minerals boom wit…
Is glacier science undone, or just enough for a just transition? Reflections from Andean Mines
Undone science refers to missing areas of scientific knowledge needed for decision-making or public policy. Though the term has become ubiquitous in STS research, it is hard to distinguish undone science from other possibilities like uncertainty, secrecy, or even unknowability. This paper advances a framework for distinguishing undone science from these other scenarios and applies it to the case of glacier management in Chile. Drawing on observat…
Strength out of weakness
Faced with the ecological crisis, environmental scientists are asking what else besides providing evidence can they do to steer needed processes of substantive change. We argue that such an exploration should start by recognizing their weakness regarding the forces aiming at slowing down the pace of change. Recognizing this weakness should lead scientists to a change of tactics, embracing forms of strategic action used for centuries by groups on …
Decommissioning
To achieve the dual goals of minimising global pollution and meeting diverse demands for environmental justice, energy transitions need to involve not only a shift to renewable energy sources but also the safe decommissioning of older energy infrastructures and management of their toxic legacies. While the global scale of the decommissioning challenge is yet to be accurately quantified, the climate impacts are significant: each year, more than an…
California oil
Documenting rubble to shift baselines
Worldwide, governments use environmental impact assessments (EIAs) to manage the environmental impacts of industrial activity. EIAs contain baselines that describe the specific environment where the project would go, and impact evaluations that identify ways to eliminate, reduce, or compensate the environmental harms the project would have. Although EIA baselines promised to democratize and improve decision-making, in practice, many affected comm…
An empirical study of EIA litigation involving energy facilities in Chile and Colombia
Lithium and development imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia
Production/destruction in Latin America
Rural production has long been a central topic for social sciences and history of Latin America, and scholars have noted the ways that societies and environments form around productive systems. Inspired by Gastón Gordillo's 2014 book Rubble, this article introduces a Special Section of the JPE that shifts the focus to the inseparably destructive aspects of production. We acknowledge the temporal dynamics of booms and busts in Latin American commo…
The authority of rules in Chile's contentious environmental politics
In 2010 Chilean legislators replaced a small environmental coordinating agency with an Environment Ministry, an autonomous Environmental Impact Assessment Agency, an enforcement agency, and specialized tribunals. Though ambitious, the reform failed to meet the stated objective of depoliticizing environmental decision-making. Instead, the reforms strengthened the authority of the central state, justified on the premise that decisions would now be …
Chile's Environmental Assessments
In 1990, Chile transitioned to democracy after 17 years of military rule. The new democracy built the country's first environmental institutions and began efforts to revitalize science, among them attempts to connect scientific expertise to public decision-making. Just over a decade into these efforts, conflicts over the environmental impacts of large industrial projects began to multiply. These environmental conflicts were often also credibility…
Reaching for the Stars? Astronomy and Growth in Chile
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Researching Race in Chile
Job-market discrimination research in the United States and Europe measures discrimination by a majority against racial minorities, discrimination that stems from historical patterns of inequality and privilege. Chilean researchers have applied these models to study class-based discrimination, finding some evidence to support its existence. Their innovative methods make race as well as class visible, and contradictions in their work show racial d…
Lithium and development imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia
The authority of rules in Chile's contentious environmental politics
In 2010 Chilean legislators replaced a small environmental coordinating agency with an Environment Ministry, an autonomous Environmental Impact Assessment Agency, an enforcement agency, and specialized tribunals. Though ambitious, the reform failed to meet the stated objective of depoliticizing environmental decision-making. Instead, the reforms strengthened the authority of the central state, justified on the premise that decisions would now be …
Chile's Environmental Assessments
In 1990, Chile transitioned to democracy after 17 years of military rule. The new democracy built the country's first environmental institutions and began efforts to revitalize science, among them attempts to connect scientific expertise to public decision-making. Just over a decade into these efforts, conflicts over the environmental impacts of large industrial projects began to multiply. These environmental conflicts were often also credibility…
Documenting rubble to shift baselines
Worldwide, governments use environmental impact assessments (EIAs) to manage the environmental impacts of industrial activity. EIAs contain baselines that describe the specific environment where the project would go, and impact evaluations that identify ways to eliminate, reduce, or compensate the environmental harms the project would have. Although EIA baselines promised to democratize and improve decision-making, in practice, many affected comm…
An empirical study of EIA litigation involving energy facilities in Chile and Colombia
Reaching for the Stars? Astronomy and Growth in Chile
California oil
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Production/destruction in Latin America
Rural production has long been a central topic for social sciences and history of Latin America, and scholars have noted the ways that societies and environments form around productive systems. Inspired by Gastón Gordillo's 2014 book Rubble, this article introduces a Special Section of the JPE that shifts the focus to the inseparably destructive aspects of production. We acknowledge the temporal dynamics of booms and busts in Latin American commo…
Researching Race in Chile
Job-market discrimination research in the United States and Europe measures discrimination by a majority against racial minorities, discrimination that stems from historical patterns of inequality and privilege. Chilean researchers have applied these models to study class-based discrimination, finding some evidence to support its existence. Their innovative methods make race as well as class visible, and contradictions in their work show racial d…
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Chile's Environmental Assessments
In 1990, Chile transitioned to democracy after 17 years of military rule. The new democracy built the country's first environmental institutions and began efforts to revitalize science, among them attempts to connect scientific expertise to public decision-making. Just over a decade into these efforts, conflicts over the environmental impacts of large industrial projects began to multiply. These environmental conflicts were often also credibility…
Reaching for the Stars? Astronomy and Growth in Chile
The authority of rules in Chile's contentious environmental politics
In 2010 Chilean legislators replaced a small environmental coordinating agency with an Environment Ministry, an autonomous Environmental Impact Assessment Agency, an enforcement agency, and specialized tribunals. Though ambitious, the reform failed to meet the stated objective of depoliticizing environmental decision-making. Instead, the reforms strengthened the authority of the central state, justified on the premise that decisions would now be …
Production/destruction in Latin America
Rural production has long been a central topic for social sciences and history of Latin America, and scholars have noted the ways that societies and environments form around productive systems. Inspired by Gastón Gordillo's 2014 book Rubble, this article introduces a Special Section of the JPE that shifts the focus to the inseparably destructive aspects of production. We acknowledge the temporal dynamics of booms and busts in Latin American commo…
Lithium and development imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia
An empirical study of EIA litigation involving energy facilities in Chile and Colombia
California oil
Documenting rubble to shift baselines
Worldwide, governments use environmental impact assessments (EIAs) to manage the environmental impacts of industrial activity. EIAs contain baselines that describe the specific environment where the project would go, and impact evaluations that identify ways to eliminate, reduce, or compensate the environmental harms the project would have. Although EIA baselines promised to democratize and improve decision-making, in practice, many affected comm…
Strength out of weakness
Faced with the ecological crisis, environmental scientists are asking what else besides providing evidence can they do to steer needed processes of substantive change. We argue that such an exploration should start by recognizing their weakness regarding the forces aiming at slowing down the pace of change. Recognizing this weakness should lead scientists to a change of tactics, embracing forms of strategic action used for centuries by groups on …
Decommissioning
To achieve the dual goals of minimising global pollution and meeting diverse demands for environmental justice, energy transitions need to involve not only a shift to renewable energy sources but also the safe decommissioning of older energy infrastructures and management of their toxic legacies. While the global scale of the decommissioning challenge is yet to be accurately quantified, the climate impacts are significant: each year, more than an…
The Exhaustion of People and Environment in an Energy Transition
Chile is experiencing a successful energy transition, with emissions falling as new solar and wind arrays replace coal-fired power plants. As the mining industry switches to renewable electricity, many in power celebrate this as “sustainable mining,” but not fenceline communities, who feel exhausted by the scale and density of extraction and construction. This article bridges scholarship on the energy transition and the critical minerals boom wit…
Is glacier science undone, or just enough for a just transition? Reflections from Andean Mines
Undone science refers to missing areas of scientific knowledge needed for decision-making or public policy. Though the term has become ubiquitous in STS research, it is hard to distinguish undone science from other possibilities like uncertainty, secrecy, or even unknowability. This paper advances a framework for distinguishing undone science from these other scenarios and applies it to the case of glacier management in Chile. Drawing on observat…
Glaciares y Constitución Aproximaciones al Debate Constitucional y Ciudadano Chileno, 1980-2023
The 2019-2023 period in Chile was particularly unusual. A massive protest challenged the political and economic system inherited from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, paving the way to vote for a new Constitution that replaced the one approved prior to the return of democracy. The public debate around the content and spirit of the new Constitution also witnessed the emergence of climate change and glaciers as political agents. Drawing from o…
Political science (10 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Mining and Resource Management (5 obras) · Engineering (4 obras) · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (4 obras) · Environmental Science (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras)