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Dr Gabriela Cabaña

Dr Gabriela Cabaña

Visiting Fellow

Department of Anthropology

Email
g.r.cabana-alvear@lse.ac.uk
orcid
0000-0002-1661-6892
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Languages
English, Spanish
Key Expertise
Chile and Latin America

About me

Gabriela is a sociologist and social anthropologist focused on the social and ecological dimensions of energy infrastructure, particularly those related the advancement of non-conventional renewable energies. She did her PhD in anthropology at LSE, and her thesis was titled "Energy as the work of nature, the quandaries of sacrificial productivism in Chiloé, south of Chile". 


Gabriela is currently a researcher at Fundación Tantí, an organization based in Antofagasta, Chile. There she is carrying out research about the impacts of the expansion of energy infrastructure and mining in the region. She is also a member of the Pacto Ecosocial e Intercultural del Sur and is interested in the intersections between anthropology and degrowth.

 Personal website: www.gabrielacabana.org

Expertise Details

Renewable Energy Infrastructure; Political Ecology; Social-environmental Conflicts; Green Hydrogen; Anthropology of the State and Public Policy; Energy Planning; Degrowth; Basic Income; Colonialism/Coloniality; Chile and Latin America

Selected publications

Journal Articles

Cabaña, G. (2019). Dignidad es cuidado. Hacia una nueva forma de integración social. Revista Intervención, 9(2), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.53689/int.v9i2.79

Cabaña, G., & Linares, J. (2022). Decolonising money: Learning from collective struggles for self-determination. Sustainability Science, 1159-1170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01104-3

Academic Publications

Cabaña Alvear, G., & Vandana. (2023). Only for the Global North? Questioning the ‘who should degrow’ issue. Degrowth Journal, 1, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.36399/Degrowth.001.01.03

Cabaña Alvear, G. (2024). Freiheit in der Anthropologie finden: Über David Graeber. En L. Burger, T. Burger, & D. Sumerauer (Eds.), Inspirationen: Über die Entstehung ethnologischen Denkens. [Inspirations: On the Formation of Anthropological Thought]. Wuppertal: edition Trickster im Peter Hammer Verlag.

Villa, V., Roa Avendaño, T., Cabaña, G., Lohmann, L. (2023) Resignificación de las transiciones energéticas. Algunas perspectivas latinoamericanas. Revista Ecología Política, 65, 95-102.

Commissioned Reports 

Cabaña, G. (2024) Ecologismo y desarrollo: dilemas de los progresismos latinoamericanos. Serie Análisis Carolina. Fundación Carolina, Madrid.

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