Research
Rooted in cultural and environmental anthropology, as well as human geography, James J. A. Blair’s research employs ethnographic, historical and participatory methods to advance the interdisciplinary fields of political ecology, science, technology and society (STS), and settler colonial studies.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
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From Watershed Moment to Hydrosocial Movement: Patagonia Without Dams and the Free-Flowing Rivers Network in Chile
James J. A. Blair, Grant Gutierrez and Ramón Balcázar M.
Human Organization, 2023
Image Credit: No Alto Maipo and Free-Flowing Rivers Network (Red por los Ríos Libres, RRL) Members Protest Near El Alfalfal, Maipo, Chile. Photo by Ramón Balcázar M. (2018)
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The 'Alterlives' of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert
James J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán and Amanda Maxwell
International Development Policy, 2023
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Tracking Penguins, Sensing Petroleum: 'Data Gaps’ and the Politics of Marine Ecology in the South Atlantic.
James J. A. Blair
Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022
Image Credit: Penguin tagging process. Photo courtesy of Amélie Augé.
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South Atlantic Universals: Science, Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
James J. A. Blair
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2019
Image Credit: Map of Pampa Azul Priority Areas. Courtesy of Secretaría de Gobierno de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovacion Productiva; Iniciativa Pampa Azul (available online: www.pampazul.gob.ar).
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Splintered Hinterlands: Public Anthropology, Environmental Advocacy and Indigenous Sovereignty
James J. A. Blair
Journal of Ethnobiology, 2019
Image Credit: Photo courtesy of Glenda Aldunate.
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Settler Indigeneity and the Eradication of the Non-Native: Self-Determination and Biosecurity in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
James J. A. Blair
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI), 2017
Image Credit: Invasive species awareness poster. The vegetation indicates that the landscape depicted is not the Falklands. Source: J. Binns, International Reptile Conservation Foundation and UK Overseas Territories Environment Programme. (Reproduced with permission from John Binns, International Reptile Conservation Foundation.)
Edited Collections
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Negotiating the Crisis: Critical Perspectives on Climate Governance
James J. A. Blair and Cindy Isenhour
Cultural Anthropology, Hot Spots, Fieldsites, 2022
Image Credit: “Delay Kills.” Oxfam action in the plenary of the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany. Photo by Robert vanWaarden.
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Introduction: Negotiating the Crisis
James J. A. Blair and Cindy Isenhour
Cultural Anthropology: Hot Spots, Fieldsites, June 23, 2022
Image Credit: “Delay Kills.” Oxfam action in the plenary of the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany. Photo by Robert vanWaarden.
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Plurinational Climate Action: Environmental Governance Beyond Green Extractivism
James J. A. Blair and Ramón M. Balcázar
Cultural Anthropology: Hot Spots, Fieldsites, June 23, 2022
Image Credit: Members of the Plurinational Observatory of Andean Salt Flats (OPSAL) at the Parallel COP organized by Civil Society for Climate Action (SCAC) in Cerrillos, Chile. Photo by Jessica Carey-Webb.
Book Chapters
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The 'Alterlives' of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert
James J. A. Blair, Ramón M. Balcázar, Javiera Barandiarán, and Amanda Maxwell
The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures, edited by Filipe Calvo, Matthew Archer, and Asanda Benya, 2023
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Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)
James J. A. Blair
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability, edited by Robert Brinkmann, 2022
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Data Gaps: Penguin Science and Petrostate Formation in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
James J. A. Blair
The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics, edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost, 2022
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Extractivismo del Litio y el Problema de la Escala: Acción Climática Global y Justicia Ambiental Local
James J. A. Blair
Salares Andinos: Ecología de Saberes por la Protección de Nuestros Salares y Humedales, edited by Bárbara Jerez Henríquez, Sergio Uribe Sierra and Ramón Morales Balcázar, 2020
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Just Garments, a worker-run factory tries to wring the sweat out of the apparel business
James J. A. Blair
Current Economic Issues. 10th edition, 2005
Book Reviews
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Reseña bibliográfica Todo lo que necesitás saber sobre Malvinas por Federico Lorenz
James J. A. Blair
Páginas, 2015
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Review Essay “Recent Studies of Oil in Latin America: Conflicted Consultancy, Peaked Patrimony and Neoliberalismo
James J. A. Blair
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology., 2014
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Review of Land by Derek Hall
James J. A. Blair
The Journal of Agrarian Change, 2014
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Review of The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity
James J. A. Blair
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology., 2013
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Review of Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas edited by John-Andrew McNeish and Owen Logan
James J. A. Blair
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE), 2013
