http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/gis_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Open Access Policy Deposits Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:22:41 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n9174z0 Extracting the future: Lithium in an era of energy transition https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n9174z0 Thu, 9 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiaran, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dj8j42w Undone science refers to missing areas of scientific knowledge needed for decision-making or public policy. Though the term has become ubiquitous in STS research, it is hard to distinguish undone science from other possibilities like uncertainty, secrecy, or even unknowability. This paper advances a framework for distinguishing undone science from these other scenarios and applies it to the case of glacier management in Chile. Drawing on observations of glaciology science and regulatory documents, the authors compare how glacier science informed decisions on two Environmental Impact Assessments about new mines, nearly 20 years apart: Pascua Lama and Los Bronces, approved respectively in 2006 and 2023. The comparison shows a shift in Chilean glacier management, from a classic case of “undone science,” defined as that needed by specific mobilized or marginalized groups to advance their cause, to one of scientific controversy. In this second moment, contests over uncertainty or what... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dj8j42w Thu, 9 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiarán, Javiera Araya, Paola Simonetti, Cristián Ragas, José https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7408j019 Is globalization still a proper descriptor? Does globalization also include satellites and space shuttles in outer space? Recent work widens the definition of globalization: ‘Globalization is the trend of greater worldwide connectivity of people over time and the awareness of this happening.’ This shift of emphasis to connectivity as the driving force and the key point, implies that globalization is just one of the many forms this takes. Important is not the form, which changes according to circumstances, but connectivity and what it aspires and achieves. In an era of comeback of geopolitics this may be an important course adjustment. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7408j019 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Nederveen Pieterse, Jan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-3956 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dt55884 To achieve the dual goals of minimising global pollution and meeting diverse demands for environmental justice, energy transitions need to involve not only a shift to renewable energy sources but also the safe decommissioning of older energy infrastructures and management of their toxic legacies. While the global scale of the decommissioning challenge is yet to be accurately quantified, the climate impacts are significant: each year, more than an estimated 29 million abandoned oil and gas wells around the world emit 2.5 million tons of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In the US alone, at least 14 million people live within a mile of an abandoned oil or gas well, creating pollution that is concentrated among low-income areas and communities of colour. The costs involved in decommissioning projects are significant, raising urgent questions about responsibility and whether companies who have profited from the sale of extracted resources will be held liable for clean-up, remediation... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dt55884 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Partridge, Tristan Barandiaran, Javiera Triozzi, Nick Toni Valtierra, Vanessa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fm911jt This discussion examines global studies and whether and how it differs from the earlier wave of globalization studies. Although treatments generally regard these as equivalent, studies of globalization are anchored in social science and humanities disciplines while global studies are, in principle, conceived on a different footing. We can distinguish two accounts of global studies: an empirical account, i.e. a description of actual existing global studies, and an analytical or programmatic account, which refers to what global studies can or should be for theoretical or other reasons. The first section of this paper discusses global knowledge as a database that exists independent of studies of globalization; the second section turns to studies of globalization; the third section concerns global studies as it actually exists; the fourth section offers a programmatic account of global studies. The concluding sections address cognitive problems of global thinking, in particular the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fm911jt Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65b7d6ps International morality and international law https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65b7d6ps Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bg8q3sd Fadi Lama. Why the West Can’t Win: From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bg8q3sd Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5z3778ng Statebuilding and indigenous rights implementation: Political incentives, social movement pressure, and autonomy policy in Central America https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5z3778ng Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Rayo, Giorleny Altamirano Mosinger, Eric S Thaler, Kai M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pp2p9tq Faced with the ecological crisis, environmental scientists are asking what else besides providing evidence can they do to steer needed processes of substantive change. We argue that such an exploration should start by recognizing their weakness regarding the forces aiming at slowing down the pace of change. Recognizing this weakness should lead scientists to a change of tactics, embracing forms of strategic action used for centuries by groups on the weaker side of power struggles: that is, guerrilla strategies. Avoiding simplistic celebrations of guerrillas—historically a form of warfare that has produced as much pain as gain—an appraisal of some of its strategic tenets could help scientists to sketch alternative forms of engagement with the ecological crisis. Instead of grand gestures and direct confrontations, they could focus on carrying out epistemic strategic actions, or initiatives centered on the strategic usage of environmental knowledge and knowledge infrastructures to... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pp2p9tq Fri, 2 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ureta, Sebastián Barandiaran, Javiera Salazar, Maite Torralbo, Camila https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59b276vv Military integration and intelligence capacity: informational effects of incorporating former rebels https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59b276vv Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Kai M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vj755p1 Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vj755p1 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Kai M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n71x53x Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n71x53x Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Kai M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cn6c4k6 Political Leadership in Africa: Leaders and Development South of the Sahara https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cn6c4k6 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Kai M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22d9c7ct Nicaragua: Doubling Down on Dictatorship https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22d9c7ct Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Kai M Mosinger, Eric https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01g5c08z AbstractWhat types of relationships do armed groups have with states? How do different levels of ties and power relations affect both armed group and government behavior? This article develops a spectrum across which armed group–state relationships can move, focusing on three key types of relationships—delegation, sponsorship, and autonomy. An armed group–state relationship may be classified depending on the degree to which the armed group receives material or security support from a state, whether it pursues the strategic aims of the state, and the balance of power between the armed group and the state. I examine cases and empirical examples of relationships between states and armed groups ranging from criminal organizations to Cold War-era rebels to pro-government and communal militias to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and al-Qaeda. As lines between categories of armed groups and between state and non-state actors are increasingly blurred, the integrated framework enhances... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01g5c08z Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Kai M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0836-8689 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xz883rt AbstractThe term disruption has become a buzzword for our times, although there is little clarity over what the term means, how it is deployed, and towards what ends. In order to understand the analytical and political stakes that are embedded in the deployment of ‘disruption’ as a rationale for various sources of upheaval, in this article I argue that these three terrains of disruption should be understood as theories of governance, and term them ‘disruption from above’, ‘disruption from the middle’, and ‘disruption from below’. Each terrain of disruption embodies different ethoses, actors, and goals: the first connoting elite-driven creative destruction and innovation; the second obfuscating the capitalist imperative that produces world-systemic upheavals; and the third seeking to expose the structures of violence and inequality built into such practices. I illustrate these three terrains through a structural account that traces the popularity of the disruption discourse from... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xz883rt Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Chua, Charmaine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0574-0521 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wd5z9pf Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wd5z9pf Fri, 2 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiaran, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/916910g4 Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by Anita Carrasco London: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/916910g4 Fri, 2 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiarán, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sq59082 Production/destruction in Latin America https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sq59082 Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Walsh, Casey Barandiaran, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6398k31g This paper investigates the historical sources of soil-lead contamination in Santa Ana, California. Even though dangerous levels of soil-lead have been found in a wide variety of communities across the United States, public health institutions lack clarity on the historical origins of these crises. This study uses geo-spatial data collected through archival research to estimate the impact of two potential sources of lead contamination in the past -- lead-paint and leaded gasoline. It examines, through a combination of statistical and historical methods, the association between lead concentrations in contemporary soil samples and patterns in the evolution of the city's physical features, such as the growth of urbanized areas and the historical flow of traffic. We emphasize the value of historical data collected through archival research for understanding the sources of environmental lead, particularly leaded gasoline, which our study found to be the most likely and most prominent... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6398k31g Thu, 4 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Rubio, Juan Manuel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5168-5578 Masri, Shahir Torres, Ivy R Sun, Yi Villegas, Keila Flores, Patricia Logue, Michael D Reyes, Abigail LeBrón, Alana MW https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0964-4673 Wu, Jun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2693-7112 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pr7c22t Hazan, Haim: Against Hybridity. Social Impasses in a Globalizing World https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pr7c22t Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d37j2f8 Covid data show that wealth is not health. What then are the major variables that affect public health in the Covid–19 pandemic? Based on onsite research in 26 countries across the world this paper singles out three variables – knowledge, state capability and social cooperation. If one of these is dysfunctional or absent Covid–19 performance suffers. The variables work best in combination. Under consideration are three phases of Covid–19 – virus control, vaccines, and the race with variants. Which types of society best combine these variables? Comparing varieties of market economies – liberal, coordinated and state-led market economies (with four variants), Covid–19 data indicate that coordinated and developmental state-led market economies tend to generate the best combination of variables and public health outcomes, and liberal market economies and rightwing populist countries produce the worst combination. Comparative Covid–19 research points to the limitations of macro theories... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d37j2f8 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kd6m827 Here I reflect on the main themes of Global Culture, Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. On these themes, where are we 30 years later? I sidestep the fine print of the 1990 conversations and share notes in brief format on where I have come to in the decades that have passed. I round off with notes on the 2020 conjuncture. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kd6m827 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cf5w5px Book Review: Cultural Chauvinism: Intercultural Communication and the Politics of Superiority by Minabere Ibelema https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cf5w5px Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9x79t5v0 Protest Begets Progress, Probably: Human Development Report 2013 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9x79t5v0 Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99c0r8ss All developing countries have been "looking East" since the rise of the Asian tigers, especially South Korea and Taiwan. The designation of the Southeast Asian economies as "tiger cubs" implies the question: can would-be tigers become tigers? Against the background of both oriental globalisation and China's effect on the region, this article compares trends in Northeast and Southeast Asia in agriculture, industry and services. State and political institutions are part of the comparison. As the conclusion notes, the new imperative for sustainable and inclusive growth excludes simply retracing the tigers development path: political change, in both national and regional institutions, is needed for the reforms in land, fiscal and industrial policy that will permit Southeast Asia to escape the middle-income trap. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99c0r8ss Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ng5p33n Parag Khanna: The Future Is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ng5p33n Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72g7w2db Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan: Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72g7w2db Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xp551nm This second response to comments on my article 'What is Global studies?' (Globalizations 10, 4, 2013) notes that the comments feature research agendas. These provide scaffolding for global studies but not of course a complete building. Among themes that need further attention are political economy and finance, the dimension of time and history, and the dynamics of twenty-first century globalization and the role of emerging economies. © 2014 © 2014 Taylor & Francis. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6xp551nm Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69z9k38b Abstract Should a discussion of populism be concerned with populism, along with revulsion of its various extremisms, or should it rather be concerned with the failure of institutions and the misbehavior of elites in a world in which eight billionaires own as much as half the world population? The former option will yield a totally different and probably somewhat more predictable discussion than the latter, which may include “from bad to worse.” A third option is that different types of market economies yield different types of populism, including pluto-populism. This discussion follows the latter two options. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69z9k38b Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ht8x41q Abstract Should a discussion of populism be concerned with populism—along with revulsion of its various extremisms (perhaps along with hints of social and psychopathology and hence, implicit endorsement of ‘moderate’ positions)? Or should it rather be concerned with the failure of institutions and the misbehavior of elites in a world in which 8 billionaires own as much as half the world population? Option a) will yield a totally different and probably somewhat more predictable discussion than option b), which may include ‘from bad to worse’. According to option c) different types of populism—including ‘pluto-populism’—should generate different treatments. This discussion follows options b) and c). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ht8x41q Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bt2q039 From economic stagnation to systemic fragility? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bt2q039 Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jt467gh The book explores intricacies of connectivity through genetic codes, technology, art, borders, populism and much more. This is a major contribution to understanding globalization. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jt467gh Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dr6q014 Accessible and insightful, this book will be an essential guide for both students in the social sciences and for professionals and scholars seeking a fresh perspective. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dr6q014 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0466n3hz From Northeast Asia to China Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Abdul Rahman Embong, Siew Yean Tham. Nederveen Pieterse, Jan. 2014. Asia rising: Welcome to the multipolar world. In Hyun-Chin Lim, W. Shafer, and Suk-Man Hwang, eds. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0466n3hz Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen Embong, Abdul Rahman Tham, Siew Yean https://escholarship.org/uc/item/513249vg Underrepresented minority (URM) college students have been steadily earning degrees in relatively less-lucrative fields of study since the mid-1990s. A decomposition reveals that this widening gap is principally explained by rising stratification at public research universities, many of which increasingly enforce GPA restriction policies that prohibit students with poor introductory grades from declaring popular majors. We investigate these GPA restrictions by constructing a novel 50-year dataset covering four public research universities’ student transcripts and employing a dynamic difference-in-difference design around the implementation of 29 restrictions. Restricted majors’ average URM enrollment share falls by 20 percent, which matches observational patterns and can be explained by URM students’ poorer average pre-college academic preparation. Using first-term course enrollments to identify students who intend to earn restricted majors, we find that major restrictions disproportionately... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/513249vg Tue, 7 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Bleemer, Zachary Mehta, Aashish https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sj7g4bh An urban proletariat with peasant characteristics: land occupations and livestock raising in South Africa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sj7g4bh Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Jacobs, Ricardo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9999-2852 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83j4p3fd As urbanization and industrialization continue to spread through China's countryside, the central government has officially declared the construction of master planned eco-industrial zones and eco-cities as primary strategies for accelerating the transformation of industrial structure and the prevailing model of economic development, as well as for “constructing a socialist economic, politically, culturally… and ecologically civilized… harmonious society” (NPC 2011: chapter 1, np). Based on recent fieldwork, this paper demonstrates how these strategies extend beyond the “green washing” of rural land enclosure and transformation, arguing that processes of rural dispossession are linked to the commodification and circulation of natural capital. This paper analyzes processes of environmentalization and enclosure as linked state-led strategies for governing economic growth, rural transformation and interventions into global market-based solutions to climate change as integral problems... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83j4p3fd Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Chen, Jia-Ching https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3276-3689 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8kj5w261 The U.S. currently enjoys a position among the world's foremost innovative and scientifically advanced economies but the emergence of new economic powerhouses like China and India threatens to disrupt the global distribution of innovation and economic competitiveness. Among U.S. policy makers, the promotion of advanced education, particularly in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields, has become a key strategy for ensuring the U.S.'s position as an innovative economic leader. Since approximately one third of science and engineering post-graduate students in the U.S. are foreign born, the future of the U.S. STEM educational system is intimately tied to issues of global competitiveness and American immigration policy. This study utilizes a combination of national education data, a survey of foreign-born STEM graduate students, and in-depth interviews of a sub-set of those students to explain how a combination of scientists' and engineers' educational... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8kj5w261 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Han, Xueying Stocking, Galen Gebbie, Matthew A Appelbaum, Richard P https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sd9z43z California has set ambitious climate policies, including economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. Yet levels of oil production and consumption remain high in the state. This gap between California's oil politics and its climate ambitions is deepened by decentralized decision-making processes. County officials are tasked with extractive planning decisions that have wide-ranging implications. In this Viewpoint article, we analyze proposals for enhanced extraction at the Cat Canyon oilfield in Santa Barbara County. After two of three proposals were withdrawn in recent months, we highlight how it has been oil industry volatility and public opposition - rather than state regulations - that have brought county development plans into closer alignment with state climate goals. As California pursues a goal of 'managing the decline' of domestic oil production, we identify strategies for bridging such gaps between local decision-making and state-level climate action, including: a comprehensive... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sd9z43z Thu, 3 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Partridge, Tristan Barandiaran, Javiera Walsh, Casey Bakardzhieva, Kalina Bronstein, Leah Hernandez, Monica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67h3v63m Abstract: In 1990, Chile transitioned to democracy after 17 years of military rule. The new democracy built the country's first environmental institutions and began efforts to revitalize science, among them attempts to connect scientific expertise to public decision-making. Just over a decade into these efforts, conflicts over the environmental impacts of large industrial projects began to multiply. These environmental conflicts were often also credibility contests, where the authority of science to speak to public issues was contested. Two such conflicts, a gold mine called Pascua Lama and a hydroelectric project called HidroAysén, enrolled several scientific teams, yet in each case the state made its final decision on each project autonomously from science. Though some scientists became central participants in each conflict, carving out for themselves access to needed resources that they used to practice ever-narrower forms of science, their credibility was called into question... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67h3v63m Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiaran, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gm8d8rx Worldwide, governments use environmental impact assessments (EIAs) to manage the environmental impacts of industrial activity. EIAs contain baselines that describe the specific environment where the project would go, and impact evaluations that identify ways to eliminate, reduce, or compensate the environmental harms the project would have. Although EIA baselines promised to democratize and improve decision-making, in practice, many affected communities, environmental activists, and scholars of EIAs find that baselines often obscure certain ecological impacts. Drawing on science and technology studies and environmental history, I reflect on why this happens and propose that it results from the ways in which EIA baselines reproduce modernist views of economic growth and progress. I analyze EIA baselines as a “memory practice” which meet the needs of the present by projecting a timeless, static past to be preserved. This naturalization of modernism can be challenged through two... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gm8d8rx Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiarán, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g5196vz While scholars and policy practitioners often advocate for science and technology transfer as a motor for economic growth, many in Latin America have long warned of the pitfalls of such top-down, North-South transfers. To many in Latin America, scientific aid or cooperation from the North has often reproduced hierarchies that perpetuate dependency. Large astronomy observatories located in Chile – with a high price tag, cutting-edge technology, and seen to answer seemingly arcane research questions – seem ripe for reproducing precisely these kinds of hierarchical relationships. Using data from documents, interviews, and a site visit to Gemini South, one of several large telescopes in Chile, this paper takes a historical perspective to examine how resilient these hierarchical relationships are. Over forty years, astronomy in Chile grew thanks to new policies that fostered cooperation among universities and gave locals privileged access to the telescopes. But the community also grew... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g5196vz Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiaran, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18k7g5fk An empirical study of EIA litigation involving energy facilities in Chile and Colombia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18k7g5fk Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiaran, Javiera Rubiano-Galvis, Sebastián https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pf7n8g3 Constructing rights in Taiwan: the feminist factor, democratization, and the quest for global citizenship https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pf7n8g3 Tue, 4 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Brysk, Alison https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dv3300x Reflexivity and Temporality in Researching Violent Settings: Problems with the Replicability and Transparency Regime https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dv3300x Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Kai M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3787p3s5 Recasting the rural: State, society and environment in contemporary China https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3787p3s5 Wed, 3 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Chen, Jia-Ching https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3276-3689 Zinda, John Aloysius Yeh, Emily Ting https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x78d1jp Lithium and development imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x78d1jp Tue, 4 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiarán, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4394423f Has Liberia Turned a Corner? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4394423f Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Spatz, Benjamin J Thaler, Kai M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04s0v3xt The authority of rules in Chile’s contentious environmental politics https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04s0v3xt Tue, 8 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiaran, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9j48n0p8 Will China be able to rebalance its economy, heavily tilted towards investment? Will it be able to increase the share of household consumption in GDP? Will it turn steeply growing social inequality around? Will urbanisation contribute to China’s rebalancing or will it add to the imbalances? Will China manage to bring pollution under control? Such variables will determine whether China can move beyond the middle-income trap and also affect its external relations. In addition, China’s rebalancing is a variable in global rebalancing. This article provides an introduction to the special issue. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9j48n0p8 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Pieterse, Jan Nederveen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wc0x548 Duit, Andreas, ed. 2014. State and Environment: The Comparative Study of Environmental Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wc0x548 Tue, 1 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Barandiaran, Javiera https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8c7219f3 Revised edition of 1994 out-of-print Stanford University Press study of human rights protest, social change, and democratization in Argentina.  A symbolic politics analysis of the truth commission, trials, and policy reform in Latin America's most sweeping transition of the 1980's. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8c7219f3 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Brysk, Alison https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20j4603n Spanish version of a symbolic politics analysis of Argentina's human rights movement and 1980's transition to democracy, originally published in 1994 with Stanford University Press, with a new epilogue. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20j4603n Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Brysk, Alison