BOOKS
Barandiaran, J. 2026. Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
“Lithium appears to offer us the hope of a renewable future. This powerful book shows us how much our thinking about the history and life of minerals must change for that hope to survive.”
—Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy
“Drawing on deep historical work, Living Minerals proposes a new paradigm for approaching the world’s resources in a time of planetary crisis: Rather than resource nationalism, we should understand minerals as parts of the ecosystems under threat of extinction. Brilliant!”
—Gabrielle Hecht, author of Residual Governance and Being Nuclear
"Telling the history of lithium mining in the US and Chile, this book reexamines nationalist memories of mining glory and growth, opening up the imagination to post-extractivist, post-growth alternatives."
—Giorgos Kallis, Professor, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Barandiaran, J. & Partridge, T. (eds.) 2025. Demanding a Radical Constitution: Environmentalism, Resilience, and Participation in Chile’s 2022 Reform Efforts. London: Palgrave.
Barandiaran, J. et al. 2022. Derechos de la Naturaleza en Chile: Argumentos para su desarrollo constitucional. Santiago: Ocholibros.
Partridge, T. 2022. Energy and Environmental Justice: Movements, Solidarities, and Critical Connections. London: Palgrave.
Barandiaran, J. 2021. Lo que el Estado neoliberal no sabe: Conflictos científicos y política ambiental en Chile. Santiago: RiL editores.
Barandiaran, J. 2018. Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy. The MIT Press.
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY / PHOTOBOOKS
Partridge, T. 2024. Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum. Goleta: Dead Letter Office / punctum books.
Partridge, T. 2024. Mingas+Solidarity. Udine: T&G Publishing / Pazmaen Press [photobook].
Mingas+Solidarity featured in The Guardian (Global Development section, 7 Oct. 2024) in this article by Saeed Kamali Dehghan:
When work becomes a party: capturing the joy of collective effort in an Indigenous community in Ecuador
Partridge, T. & CREW. 2024. We Are Welcome Aliens [photobook].
Partridge, T. & CREW. 2024. Lithium Landscapes [photobook].
REPORTS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Partridge, T. 2025. “Transitions beyond crisis: Emergence and temporality in collective worldmaking” in Anna Willow & Bürge Abiral (eds.) Postcarbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 27-47.
Partridge, T. 2025. “Grid” in R. Cox & C. Wright (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology. London: Routledge, pp. 56-63.
Partridge, T. & J. Barandiaran, 2024. "Futures born of the past and present: building transitions as collaborative projects of justice." In: K. Haltinner & D. Sarathchandra, eds. Solving the Climate Crisis: US Social Scientists Speak Out. London: Routledge, pp. 193-206.
Blair, J.J.A., Balcázar, R.M., Barandiarán, J., and Maxwell, A., 2024. The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert. In: F. Calvão, M. Archer, and A. Benya, eds. The afterlives of extraction: alternatives and sustainable futures, pp. 257–286.
Partridge, T. 2023. "The right to energy: learning from struggles for food, water, and rights to nature." In: S. Bouzarovski, S. Fuller, and T. Reames, eds. Handbook on Energy Justice. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 226–239.
Partridge, T. 2018. “The commons as organizing infrastructure: Indigenous collaborations and post-neoliberal visions in Ecuador” in E. Apostolopoulou & J. Cortes-Vazquez (eds.) The Right to Nature: Social movements, environmental justice and neoliberal natures. London: Routledge-Earthscan.
Partridge, T. 2017. “Unconventional action and community control: Rerouting dependencies despite the hydrocarbon economy” in K. Jalbert, A. Willow, D. Casagrande & S. Paladino (eds.) ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements and Alternative Futures. New York: Routledge.
ARTICLES
Barandiaran, J. 2025. "The Exhaustion of People and Environment in an Energy Transition." Environment and Society: Advances in Research 16: 31-49. DOI https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2025.160103.
Partridge, T. & Barandiaran, J. 2024. “The long mid-transition: Tracking decades of coastal oil well decommissioning in California.” Environmental Research: Energy 1 (4), 045002. DOI 10.1088/2753-3751/ad7bbd.
Partridge, T., Barandiaran, J., Triozzi, T., Valtierra, T. 2023. “Decommissioning: Another critical challenge for energy transitions.” Global Social Challenges Journal 2(2): 188-202.
- related blog post at Transforming Society (9 Oct. 2023): "The beginning of the end of oil: Decommissioning challenges within energy transitions."
Ureta, S., Barandiaran, J., Salazar, M., Torralbo, C. 2023. "Strength out of weakness: Rethinking scientific engagement with the ecological crisis as strategic action." Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 11 (1): 00072. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00072.
Graham, S., Wary, M., Calcagni, F., Cisneros, M., de Luca, C., Gorostiza, S., Stedje Hanserud, O., Kallis, G., Kotsila, P., Leipold, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Partridge, T., Petit-Boix, A., Schaffartzik, A., Shokry, G., Tirado-Herrero, S., van den Bergh, J., & Ziveri, P. 2023. "An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points." People and Nature 5 (5): 1445-1456. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10516
Barandiaran, J. et al. 2022. Special stream issue of Media + Environment.
Apostolopoulou, E., Bormpoudakis, D., Chatzipavlidis, A., Cortés Vázquez, J., Florea, I., Gearey, M., Levy, J., Loginova, J., Ordner, J., Partridge, T., Pizarro, A., Rhoades, H., Symons, K., Veríssimo, C., Wahby, N. 2022. “Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons.” Journal of Political Ecology 29(1): 144–188.
Partridge, T., Barandiaran, J., Walsh, C., Bakardzhieva, K., Bronstein, L., Hernandez, M. 2020. “California oil: Bridging the gaps between local decision-making and state-level climate action.” The Extractive Industries and Society 7(4): 1354-1359.
Barandiaran, J. 2021. “Democratizing Science for Post-Carbon Lithium Futures”. The Berlin Journal, no. 35. American Academy in Berlin.
Partridge, T. 2020. “‘Power farmers’ in north India and new energy producers around the world: Three critical fields for multiscalar research.” Energy Research & Social Science 69: 101575.
Barandiaran, J. 2019. “Lithium and Development Imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia.” World Development. 113, pp. 381-391.