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Javiera Barandiarán is Assistant Professor in the Global Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Barandiarán received her Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of California, Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. She holds a Masters in Public Policy also from Berkeley and received her B.A. in politics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research has been awarded support from the Social Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation.
Barandiarán works on environmental politics, experts and the state in Latin America, to understand how states come to know about the environment in order to regulate it. Her teaching interests include development and environment, democratic institutions and states in transition, the politics of knowledge production and science, and innovation and environmental policies. Prior to her Ph.D., Barandiarán conducted surveys on attitudes towards science, technology and the environment in European countries. She has also worked in or conducted research on questions of rural development in Hawai’i, Mexico and California.
Barandiarán is working on a book that explores four environmental conflicts in Chile to reflect on the ways in which the Chilean state organizes, accesses and believes in environmental information since the end of the Pinochet regime. The conflicts are a toxic waste spill by a paper and pulp mill in Valdivia, the mine at Pascua Lama, the virus ISA in salmon farming, and the hydroelectric dams of HidroAysén.
Publications:
Barandiaran, Javiera. (2012). “Researching Race in Chile” Latin America Research Review. Vol. 47, No. 1., pp. 161-176.
Barandiaran, Javiera. (2012) "Threats and opportunities of proprietary science at the University Andres Bello in Chile" Higher Education. Vol. 63, Issue 2, pp. 205-218
Philbrick, M. and Barandiaran, Javiera. (2009). “The National Citizens’ Technology Forum: lessons for the future“ Science and Public Policy. Vol. 36, No. 5., pp. 335-347
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Graduate seminar: Science, Technology and Globalization
"Globalization is associated with technological progress and institutions that operate and “think” globally. This course introduces students to the exciting literature on how science and technology shape (and are shaped by) phenomena like globalization, democracy, political power and identity. Despite our faith in the power of science and the technology to improve the human condition, too often their effects have been uneven. Students will learn to see science and technology as ideal sites for Global Studies research."
Undergraduate courses:
Global 161 Global Environmental Politics
Global 173 Energy in Global Societies
Global 2 Introduction to Global Economic and Political Processes