Harvard Club of the Research Triangle

Thea Riofrancos, “Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition,”"  

Join the Harvard Radcliffe Institute on April 14th at 12 noon EST for a chat about resource extraction and renewable energy.

Thea Riofrancos’s current project, “Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition,” explores the politics of the transition to renewable energy through the lens of one of its key technologies: lithium batteries. Based on multisited fieldwork following lithium’s global supply chains from the point of extraction in the Chilean desert, “Brine to Batteries” will be the first scholarly account of the rapidly moving processes shaping the contours of the next energy system—and those of our planetary future.
 

Thea Riofrancos is an assistant professor of political science at Providence College, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2022), and a Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2020-2021). Her research focuses on resource extraction, renewable energy, climate change, green technology, social movements, and the left in Latin America. These themes are explored in her book, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020), her co-authored book, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso Books, 2019), and academic articles in World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Cultural Studies. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Boston Review, The Baffler, n+1, Dissent, Jacobin, among others.

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What:   Radcliffe Fellows' Presentation Series: Thea Riofrancos, "Brine to Batteries: The Extractive Frontiers of the Global Energy Transition" 
When:  Apr 14, 2021 12:00 PM EST
Where:  Online Discussion
Tickets:  This event is free for members.  Register here.