SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Felix Dorn is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. He studied International Economic Studies at Innsbruck University and the National University of Córdoba. His PhD thesis focused on political ecology and analyzed the social-ecological conflicts around lithium mining in Argentina and Chile. Felix Dorn has been a visiting researcher at the National University of Tucumán (Argentina), the Catholic University of the North (Chile), Utrecht University (Netherlands) and the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Felix Dorn is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. He studied International Economic Studies at Innsbruck University and the National University of Córdoba. His PhD thesis focused on political ecology and analyzed the social-ecological conflicts around lithium mining in Argentina and Chile. Felix Dorn has been a visiting researcher at the National University of Tucumán (Argentina), the Catholic University of the North (Chile), Utrecht University (Netherlands) and the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Felix Dorn’s current research focuses on decarbonization, the energy transition, climate change, and “new” energy resources such as lithium and green hydrogen in Latin America. During his research stay at Extractivism.de, he examines actors and their interests, conflicts, and discourses from a multi-scalar perspective to gain insights into the reproduction of social inequalities and the contested nature of transitions.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
Dorn, Felix M.; Hafner, Robert; Plank, Christina. (2022). “Towards a climate change consensus: How mining and agriculture legitimize green extractivism in Argentina.” The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol. 11: 101130. VIEW PUBLICATION
Dorn, Felix M., Gundermann, Hans. (2022). “Mining companies, indigenous communities, and the state: The political ecology of lithium in Chile (Salar de Atacama) and Argentina (Salar de Olaroz-Cauchari).” Journal of Political Ecology, Vol.29, N°1: 341–359. VIEW PUBLIKCATION
Dorn, Felix M. (2022): Green colonialism in Latin America? Towards a new research agenda on the global energy transition. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (114): 137-146. VIEW PUBLICATION
Dorn, Felix M. (2021). “Inequalities in resource-based global production networks: resistance to lithium mining in Argentina (Jujuy) and Portugal (Região Norte).” Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, Vol. 37, N°4: 70-91. VIEW PUBLICATION
Dorn, Felix M., Huber, Christoph. (2020). “Global Production Networks and natural resource extraction: adding a political ecology perspective.” Geographica Helvetica, Vol. 75, N°2: 183-193. VIEW PUBLICATION