Don Kingsbury, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Extractive transitions: contested framings of decarbonization and lithium mining in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile
The Extractive Industries and Society · 2026 · first author
Redundancies, layers, and dilemmas: Comparing private standards and public regulations in lithium mining
The Extractive Industries and Society · 2024
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec
Global Environmental Politics · 2024 · first author

All 37 publications

37 publications.

01

Extractive transitions: contested framings of decarbonization and lithium mining in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile

Donald Kingsbury

The Extractive Industries and Society20261 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101839

02

Redundancies, layers, and dilemmas: Comparing private standards and public regulations in lithium mining

Teresa Kramarz, Maria Victoria Arias Mahiques, Tomas Allan, Melisa Escosteguy, Donald Kingsbury, Lucas Seghezzo

The Extractive Industries and Society202413 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101479

03

Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec

Donald Kingsbury

Global Environmental Politics20243 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00766

04

‘We are a mining region’: Lithium frontiers and extractivism in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada

Donald Kingsbury, Amalie Wilkinson

The Extractive Industries and Society20237 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2023.101330

05

Energy transitions in the shadow of a dictator: Decarbonizing neoliberalism and lithium extraction in Chile

Donald Kingsbury

The Anthropocene Review202223 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/20530196221087790

06

Lithium’s buzz: extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile

Donald Kingsbury

Cultural Studies202220 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2034909

07

Climate action and populism of the left in Ecuador

Teresa Kramarz, Donald Kingsbury

Environmental Politics20224 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2090388

08

Reactive Decarbonization in Cuba and Venezuela

Donald Kingsbury

2022First author

DOI: 10.4324/9781003183020-15

09

Latin American Extractivism and (or after) the Left

Donald Kingsbury

Latin American Research Review202118 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.25222/larr.1668

10

Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador

Teresa Kramarz, Donald Kingsbury

20217 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-70963-1

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Munk School
Department of Political Science
School of the Environment

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Donald Kingsbury

Department of Political Science

37 shared papers, latest 2026

Teresa Kramarz

School of the Environment

11 shared papers, latest 2024

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