Javiera Barandiaran
Associate Professor in the Global Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara and director/co-founder of CREW; author of Living Minerals, which examines the history, politics, and environmental impacts of lithium mining in Chile and the US.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 54min
Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)
Javiera Barandiaran, Associate Professor and director at CREW, studies lithium mining and environmental justice. She discusses the history and politics of brine-lithium, water and ecosystem impacts in desert mines, and how imaginaries about scarcity and national resources shape mining decisions. The conversation also explores rights-of-nature approaches and future research on extraction technologies and glaciers.
Feb 13, 2026 • 54min
Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)
Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara and author of Living Minerals, explores the history and politics of lithium mining in Chile and the US. She traces mining memories, rights of nature debates, and the water and ecosystem stakes of brine extraction. The conversation probes scarcity narratives, technical imaginaries around EVs, and emerging methods like direct extraction.
Feb 13, 2026 • 54min
Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)
Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara and author of Living Minerals, studies the politics of science, environment, and mining in Latin America. She explores the history and myths of lithium extraction, water and ecosystem impacts in desert mines, and how narratives of scarcity, memory, and market uncertainty shape the global rush for lithium.
