1st Edition
The Political Economy of the Energy Transition in Latin America Between Extractivism and Sustainable Development
Lists of Figures and Tables
About the Editors
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
Hannes Warnecke-Berger & Hans-Jürgen Burchardt
2 Rethinking Latin America's Energy Transition: Which Path to Follow?
Esteban Serrani
3 From Efficiency to Prosperity: Does the Changing Narrative of Industrial Policy Open New Opportunities for the Global South?
Verónica Robert
4 Eradicating the Structural Limits of the Latin American Economies with Commodities
Susana Herrero Olarte
5 Green Growth Models in the Periphery: Limits for Latin America's Decarbonization
Pedro Romero Marques, Lucca Henrique Rodrigues & Clara Zanon Brenck
6 Climate Change and Consumption Patterns in Mexico
Luis Miguel Galindo & Karina Caballero
7 Kicking Away the Ladder Again? On Extractivism and Development Policies
Luis Bértola
8 The End of the Natural Gas Cycle in Bolivia: A Historical Analysis of Structural Extractivism
Guillermo Guzmán Prudencio
9 Oil and Development Expectations in Latin America: The Extractivist Model in Venezuela
Luíza Cerioli
10 Resistance to Uranium Mining in Argentina: (In)Between Clean Energy Self-Sufficiency and Neo-Extractivism
Agustín Piaz
11 Geographies of Decarbonization: Green Frontiers and the Political Economy of Lithium and Hydrogen in Argentina
Felix Malte Dorn
12 The Extractive Transition and Social License: The Crossroad for the Andean Region
Osmel Manzano & Daniela Valdivia
13 Trajectories of Mineral Policy under the Energy Transition: Global Production Networks and the Extractivist State in South America
Felipe Irarrázaval & José Carlos Orihuela
14 Extractivism and Resource Nationalism
Rafael Domínguez Martín
15 Epilogue: To the Decarbonization Consensus
Breno Bringel & Maristella Svampa
Biography
Hannes Warnecke-Berger is a senior researcher at the University of Kassel and the principal investigator of the research network extractivism.
Hans-Jürgen Burchardt is Professor of International and Inter-Societal Relations at the University of Kassel and German Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center CALAS.
