• Guayana and extractivism in the 1950s

    Entangled Materialities

    Entangled Materialities is the manuscript I am currently writing. It charts the cultural and environmental history of Venezuela’s under-examined regional extractive zones from 1890 to 1980 to reveal their complexities, potentialities, and ontological provocations.

  • Prospects gold mining in Venezuela in 1889

    Archives of the Planetary Mine

    Archives of the Planetary Mine addresses the current geohistorical and socioecological magnitude of energy consumption and the radical politics, territorial, and social configurations around mineral resource extraction in the Global South.

  • Chile's Atacama salt pan lithium mining by brine well water evaporation / Photo by Oton Barros

    Energy Matters

    Energy Matters: Latin America and the Cultural Critique of Energy is a special issue forthcoming in Environmental Humanities that traces the intersections between cultures, materialities, politics, and energy consumption in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela.