Book Chapters

From Cases to Sites: Studying Global Processes in Comparative Politics. Rethinking Comparison, eds. Erica Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith. Cambridge University Press, 2021

El Proyecto Mirador En El Contexto Nacional De (Neo)Extractivismo. La Amazonía Minada: Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el Sur del Ecuador, eds. K. Van Teijlingen, E. Leifsen, C. Fernández-Salvador, and L. Sánchez-Vázque. Quito: Editorial USFQ and Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2017

Policy Papers

Achieving Zero Emissions With More Mobility and Less Mining. Climate & Community Institute, 2023

Biden’s Defense Production Act Order and Four Key Ways to Ensure Supply Chain Justice. (with Patrick Bigger, Johanna Bozuwa, Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Yonah Freemark, Batul Hassan, Mark Paul), Climate & Community Institute, 2022

A Green New Deal for Transportation (with Yonah Freemark, Billy Fleming, Caitlin McCoy, Rennie Meyers, Xan Lillehei, and Daniel Aldana Cohen), Climate & Community Institute, 2022

A New Era of Public Power (with Johanna Bozuwa, Sarah Knuth, Patrick Robbins, Suzy Baker, A.L. McCullough, Kira McDonald, Chelsea Mackin, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Nick Graetz, and Neilay Shah). Climate & Community Institute, 2021

Memo: Green Industrial Policy for Domestic and Global Climate Justice Is Popular (with Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, and Jason Ganz). Data for Progress, 2020

A Green Stimulus to Rebuild our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress. (with Bozuwa, Johanna, J. Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Jim Goodman, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel M. Kammen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Mark Paul, and Raj Patel) Medium, 2020

Public Writing

The Extracted Earth (interview by Thomas Meaney). Granta, 2024 (click here for PDF)

The Lithium Problem (interview by Alyssa Battistoni). Dissent, 2023.

Electric vehicles alone won’t take us to a decarbonized future. The Hill, 2023

Where Should the Climate Movement Go Next? The Nation, 2022

Chile: White Gold Rush. Chatham House’s The World Today, 2022 (click here for PDF)

Gabriel Boric and Latin America’s new pink tide (with David Adler). New Statesman, 2022

Shifting Mining from the Global South Misses the Point of Climate Justice. Foreign Policy, 2022 (click here for PDF)

The Rush to ‘Go Electric’ Comes With a Hidden Cost: Destructive Lithium Mining. The Guardian, 2021

Biden risks botching a key chance to fight climate change (with Mark Paul). The Washington Post, 2021

Extractivism and Extractivismo. Global South Studies, Key Concepts, 2021

Seize and Resist: The Global Supply Chain Is Up For Grabs. The Baffler, 2020

Field Notes From Extractive Frontiers. Center For Humans & Nature, 2020

It’s a Tough Time for the Left. But I’m More Optimistic Than Ever. The New York Times, 2020

Latin America can only thrive with a new eco-social pact. International Politics & Society, 2020

Latin America’s Green New Deal (with Daniel Aldana Cohen). NACLA Report on the Americas, 2020

Reclaiming Populism: The View from Latin America. Boston Review, 2020

COVID-19 Makes Clear Energy and Water Are Public Goods (with Johanna Bozuwa). The Hill, 2020

I'm a Political Scientist. This Is Why Climate Activists Need to Keep Turning the Heat Up on Joe Biden. Earther, 2020

What Green Costs. Logic Magazine, 2019

Plan, Mood, Battlefield - Reflections on the Green New Deal. Viewpoint Magazine, 2019

The Green New Deal’s Five Freedoms (with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Alyssa Battistoni). The Guardian (re-published from Jacobin Magazine), 2019

A Green New Deal to Win Back Our Future. Jacobin Magazine, 2019

What Comes After Extractivism? Dissent, 2019

Populism Without the People. N+1 Magazine. 2018

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class. In These Times, 2018

A Souring Friendship, a Left Divided (with Marc Becker). NACLA Report on the Americas, 2018

Eco-Socialism or Bust (with Robert Shaw and Will Speck). Jacobin Magazine, 2018

Zombie Liberalism (with Daniel Denvir). N+1 Magazine, 2018

Digging Free of Poverty. Jacobin Magazine, 2017

Ecuador After Correa. N+1 Magazine, 2017

Democracy Without the People. N+1 Magazine, 2017

The “Identity Politics” Debate Is Splintering the Left. Here’s How We Can Move Past It (with Daniel Denvir). In These Times, 2017

Proleptic Protest: Local Resistance to New Extractive Projects in Ecuador. Kellogg Institute Working Paper, 2016

Beyond the Petrostate: Ecuador’s Left Dilemma. Dissent, 2015

Book Reviews

The Ideology of Creole Revolution. Political Theory, 2018

Populism’s Power. Perspectives on Politics, 2017

Precarious Politics: On Butler’s Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly. Theory & Event, 2017