Aaron Malone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4457693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Malone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Malone |
| SIGNATURE | MALONE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado School of Mines |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4436-6202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Contested criticality
Critical minerals are used in numerous technologies, including for energy transition, and there is increasing global attention to their production and supply chains. The concept of critical minerals potentially appeals across multiple registers, to those interested in security, economy, and environment. This paper analyzes the purported convergence of interests and existence of a critical minerals consensus, drawing from a case study of proposed …
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism
Participatory and User-Centered Design for Hazard Mapping
Geologic hazards affect the community of Achoma, in Peru’s Colca Canyon. Building on a rockfall hazard characterization study, this article engages the principles of participatory mapping and user-centered design for the tailoring of hazard maps to the context. Two workshops were conducted with community members to gauge their perceptions of sample maps, preferences for design elements, and potential uses of maps, and to refine accuracy of map fe…
Could Justice40 reproduce injustices in the critical mineral sector
The United States is reprioritizing domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals, with billions of dollars of investments. Because of their uses in low-carbon technologies, the mining and processing of these resources falls under the scope of the Justice40 Initiative, the Biden administration’s flagship environmental justice policy. Justice40 prioritizes green investments to benefit communities deemed disadvantaged, including all recog…
Analyzing a deadly confrontation to understand the roots of conflict in artisanal and small-scale mining
I am formal, what comes next?”
Prospects for American cobalt
Cross-validation as a step toward the integration of local and scientific knowledge of geologic hazards in rural Peru
Pandemic response in rural Peru
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was devastating in Peru, which suffered a high death rate and severe economic disruption. These results occurred despite ambitious response measures, revealing widespread institutional weaknesses across the country's levels of government. We analyze responses across the four levels of government, with emphasis on local governance in rural areas, to understand how institutions and contexts shape crisis manag…
Informal food systems and differential mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic in Arequipa, Peru
The global pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has disrupted food systems and food security in many contexts Here, Malone et al examine how the pandemic has affected urban food supply and distribution in Peru, one of the most impacted countries in South America, which also has among the most ambitious response measures in the region They also examine official responses and informal reactions to understand how the Peruvian food system has…
Intensified Liminal Legality
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides qualifying undocumented immigrant youth with significant benefits. These benefits exist in a state of tension because they are temporary, making the status of DACA recipients precarious. In this article we draw on survey and interview data collected with DACA recipients in Colorado, along with community stakeholder interviews and observations to examine the liminally legal experie…
Coexistence and conflict between artisanal mining, fishing, and farming in a Peruvian boomtown
Diaspora policy's impact on migrant organizations
Migrant origin countries are increasingly implementing diaspora policies to embrace and tap into emigrant communities. These policies often call for the participation of migrant organizations, but it is unclear how the outreach affects the groups or whether space is created for migrants to exercise agency. I engage these questions through analysis of Mexico’s migrant-centred 3x1 Program for community development, examining the institutionalizatio…
Migrant Communities and Participatory Research Partnerships in the Neoliberal University
Participatory research holds the potential to decolonize knowledge production and put research into action to advance social justice aims and the concerns of participant communities. Participatory approaches are becoming more accepted, yet the output and impact demands researchers must fulfil remain mismatched to participatory work, driven instead by a neoliberal academic model. In this context, I see a cautionary tale in the history of participa…
Im)mobile and (Un)successful? A policy mobilities approach to New Orleans’s residential security taxing districts
Policy mobilities scholars critically analyze the processes of assemblage, mobilization, and mutation that shape policy circuits, but have been critiqued for an over-emphasis on successful and mobile cases. This paper adds to a growing effort to diversify the empirical scope of the field through an example that blurs the boundaries of mobility/immobility and success/failure. I examine residential security taxing districts, which are derived from …
Coexistence and conflict between artisanal mining, fishing, and farming in a Peruvian boomtown
Intensified Liminal Legality
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides qualifying undocumented immigrant youth with significant benefits. These benefits exist in a state of tension because they are temporary, making the status of DACA recipients precarious. In this article we draw on survey and interview data collected with DACA recipients in Colorado, along with community stakeholder interviews and observations to examine the liminally legal experie…
Prospects for American cobalt
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism
Im)mobile and (Un)successful? A policy mobilities approach to New Orleans’s residential security taxing districts
Policy mobilities scholars critically analyze the processes of assemblage, mobilization, and mutation that shape policy circuits, but have been critiqued for an over-emphasis on successful and mobile cases. This paper adds to a growing effort to diversify the empirical scope of the field through an example that blurs the boundaries of mobility/immobility and success/failure. I examine residential security taxing districts, which are derived from …
I am formal, what comes next?”
Could Justice40 reproduce injustices in the critical mineral sector
The United States is reprioritizing domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals, with billions of dollars of investments. Because of their uses in low-carbon technologies, the mining and processing of these resources falls under the scope of the Justice40 Initiative, the Biden administration’s flagship environmental justice policy. Justice40 prioritizes green investments to benefit communities deemed disadvantaged, including all recog…
Analyzing a deadly confrontation to understand the roots of conflict in artisanal and small-scale mining
Im)mobile and (Un)successful? A policy mobilities approach to New Orleans’s residential security taxing districts
Policy mobilities scholars critically analyze the processes of assemblage, mobilization, and mutation that shape policy circuits, but have been critiqued for an over-emphasis on successful and mobile cases. This paper adds to a growing effort to diversify the empirical scope of the field through an example that blurs the boundaries of mobility/immobility and success/failure. I examine residential security taxing districts, which are derived from …
Diaspora policy's impact on migrant organizations
Migrant origin countries are increasingly implementing diaspora policies to embrace and tap into emigrant communities. These policies often call for the participation of migrant organizations, but it is unclear how the outreach affects the groups or whether space is created for migrants to exercise agency. I engage these questions through analysis of Mexico’s migrant-centred 3x1 Program for community development, examining the institutionalizatio…
Migrant Communities and Participatory Research Partnerships in the Neoliberal University
Participatory research holds the potential to decolonize knowledge production and put research into action to advance social justice aims and the concerns of participant communities. Participatory approaches are becoming more accepted, yet the output and impact demands researchers must fulfil remain mismatched to participatory work, driven instead by a neoliberal academic model. In this context, I see a cautionary tale in the history of participa…
Pandemic response in rural Peru
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was devastating in Peru, which suffered a high death rate and severe economic disruption. These results occurred despite ambitious response measures, revealing widespread institutional weaknesses across the country's levels of government. We analyze responses across the four levels of government, with emphasis on local governance in rural areas, to understand how institutions and contexts shape crisis manag…
Informal food systems and differential mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic in Arequipa, Peru
The global pandemic of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has disrupted food systems and food security in many contexts Here, Malone et al examine how the pandemic has affected urban food supply and distribution in Peru, one of the most impacted countries in South America, which also has among the most ambitious response measures in the region They also examine official responses and informal reactions to understand how the Peruvian food system has…
Intensified Liminal Legality
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides qualifying undocumented immigrant youth with significant benefits. These benefits exist in a state of tension because they are temporary, making the status of DACA recipients precarious. In this article we draw on survey and interview data collected with DACA recipients in Colorado, along with community stakeholder interviews and observations to examine the liminally legal experie…
Coexistence and conflict between artisanal mining, fishing, and farming in a Peruvian boomtown
Cross-validation as a step toward the integration of local and scientific knowledge of geologic hazards in rural Peru
Analyzing a deadly confrontation to understand the roots of conflict in artisanal and small-scale mining
I am formal, what comes next?”
Prospects for American cobalt
Participatory and User-Centered Design for Hazard Mapping
Geologic hazards affect the community of Achoma, in Peru’s Colca Canyon. Building on a rockfall hazard characterization study, this article engages the principles of participatory mapping and user-centered design for the tailoring of hazard maps to the context. Two workshops were conducted with community members to gauge their perceptions of sample maps, preferences for design elements, and potential uses of maps, and to refine accuracy of map fe…
Could Justice40 reproduce injustices in the critical mineral sector
The United States is reprioritizing domestic extraction and processing of critical minerals, with billions of dollars of investments. Because of their uses in low-carbon technologies, the mining and processing of these resources falls under the scope of the Justice40 Initiative, the Biden administration’s flagship environmental justice policy. Justice40 prioritizes green investments to benefit communities deemed disadvantaged, including all recog…
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism
Contested criticality
Critical minerals are used in numerous technologies, including for energy transition, and there is increasing global attention to their production and supply chains. The concept of critical minerals potentially appeals across multiple registers, to those interested in security, economy, and environment. This paper analyzes the purported convergence of interests and existence of a critical minerals consensus, drawing from a case study of proposed …
Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Mining and Resource Management (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)