Coordinator, Co-Founder
Email: tristan.partridge@ucsb.edu
Dr. Partridge is a Lecturer in Global Studies at UCSB and co-founder of the CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work.
His research focuses on collective responses to social and environmental inequalities, drawing on the ever-growing global movement of environmental justice activism and scholarship. His work includes collaborative projects with Indigenous communities defending land and water rights in Ecuador, with farmers’ movements for non-toxic agriculture in northern India, and with groups resisting new oil extraction across California.
Dr. Partridge received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Social Anthropology. His photography has been exhibited internationally. He has taught at universities in Chile, Spain, the UK, and the US, including courses on ethnographic methods, political ecology, anthropological theory, and visual anthropology.
With the Ancestral Community of San Isidro in highland Ecuador, Tristan published a collaborative monograph of documentary photography: Mingas+Solidarity.
His other books include Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum (punctum, 2024) and Energy and Environmental Justice: Movements, Solidarities, and Critical Connections (Palgrave, 2022).
Other publications (selected)
J. Barandiaran & T. Partridge (eds.), 2025. Demanding a Radical Constitution: Environmentalism, Resilience, and Participation in Chile’s 2022 Reform Efforts. London: Palgrave.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 2021. “El Aromo Solar Project Sets Precedent for Renewable Energy in Ecuador.” North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA): 19 January.
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.
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.
Partridge, T., M. Thomas, N. Pidgeon, B. Harthorn, 2019. “Disturbed Earth: Conceptions of the deep underground in shale extraction deliberations in the US and UK.” Environmental Values 28(6): 641-663.
Partridge, T., M. Thomas, N. Pidgeon, B. Harthorn. 2018 “Urgency in energy justice: Contestation and time in prospective shale extraction in the United States and United Kingdom.” Energy Research & Social Science 42: 138-146.
Partridge, T. 2017. “Resisting ruination: Resource sovereignties and socioecological struggles in Cotopaxi, Ecuador.” Journal of Political Ecology 24: 763-776.
Partridge, T. 2016. “Rural Intersections: Resource Marginalisation and the ‘non-Indian Problem’ in Highland Ecuador.” Journal of Rural Studies 47(A): 337-349.
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