Green Extractivisms and Alternative Transitions

Latin America is deeply entangled with the technologies and infrastructures of low-carbon energy systems, mostly through the mining for transition materials and the installation of renewable energy projects. This review article highlights the history, contemporary panorama, and future of green energy in Latin America. The article also attends to the production of alternative transition models from Indigenous, Afro-descendant, worker, and activist perspectives. We approach these interventions as emergent scholarship that challenges traditional extractive models. We also draw on our fieldwork in Colombia and Costa Rica as examples of energy conflicts and possible energy futures. Through these examples, we call for more visible critical social science scholarship on the green energy transition, especially on efforts that strive to restore justice and well-being in frontline communities

Economic Justice · Energy (signal processing · Energy transition · Latin Americans · Psychological intervention · Renewable energy · Scholarship · Mining and Resource Management · Politics and Society in Latin America · Water Governance and Infrastructure