This is a selection of publications. A complete CV in Spanish is available here and in English here
Gabriela’s doctoral thesis is available here
Academic publications
2026
Cabaña, G. (2026). Nuestra casa comienza en Chacao: Ecoautoridades, burocracia y transición energética en torno a una carretera eléctrica en Chiloé, Chile. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 31(2), e70050. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70050
Cabaña, G., & Richter, K. (2026). Green extractivism in Colombia: A scoping review on indigenous rights and livelihood impacts, and policy and social movement responses. The Extractive Industries and Society, 25, 101808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2025.101808
2024
Paulson, S., Cabaña Alvear, G., Muñoz-Sueiro, L., & Velotti, L. (2024). Degrowth and Anthropology. En Oxford bibliographies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199766567-0303
2023
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
2022
Cabaña, G. & J. Linares 2022. Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination. Sustainability Science (disponible on-line: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01104-3
Cabaña, G. 2022. Desmantelar el paradigma fósil: algunos puntos para re-imaginar el futuro de la movilidad más allá del crecimiento económico. Revista Estudios del Transporte 21.
Cabaña, G. 2022. Decrecimiento: una propuesta realista para Chile. En Economía en tiempos de crisis: perspectivas para la transición socioecológica en Chile (eds) E. Costa Cordella & V. Belemmi Baeza, 22–46. Ediciones ONG FIMA.
2020
Aedo, M. P. & G. Cabaña 2020. Affects, activisms and resistances facing the impacts of Capitaloceno: an embodied learning experience in Chile. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 1, 97–122.
Cabaña, G., & Roy, B. (2020). Review of Gibbs, J. (dir.). 2020. Planet of the Humans. Documentary film. Journal of Political Ecology, 27(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23792
2019
Cabaña, G. & M. Murray 2019. Beyond cash, beyond conditional Ingreso Ético Familiar and the senses of poverty in a group of Mapuche women. In Money from the government in Latin America: conditional cash transfer programs and rural lives (eds) M. E. Balen & M. Fotta, 162–177. (Routledge studies in Latin American development). Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge (available on-line: https://www.routledge.com/Money-from-the-Government-in-Latin-America-Conditional-Cash-Transfer-Programs/Balen-Fotta/p/book/9780815387374
Public Writing
Aedo Zuñiga, M. P., & Cabaña, G. (2025, September 16). From the Steppes to the Desert: Beyond “Green” Megaprojects. Global Tapestry of Alternatives. https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:17:aedo_cabana
A Latin American People’s Green Deal: What role can collaborations between academia and activism play? With Sergio Chaparro Hernández and Amanda Segnini. International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (2025).
Cabaña, G., & Balcázar M., R. (2025). Green Sacrifice Zones in Antofagasta: Chile’s energy transition promises decarbonization, but in the north of the country, a growing extractive frontier threatens water, land, and Indigenous ways of life. NACLA Report on the Americas, 57(3), 286-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2025.2542080
¿Zonas de sacrificio verde en Chile? Amenazas y riesgos de la expansión minera y energética en territorios y ecosistemas del Desierto de Atacama. With Ramón Balcázar M. Report for Fundación Tantí (2024).
Ecologismo y desarrollo: dilemas de los progresismos latinoamericanos. Written for Fundación Carolina (2024).
“Hydrogen: Green Solution or Energy Colonialism?. Green European Journal (2024).
“Resignificación de las transiciones energéticas. Algunas perspectivas latinoamericanas”. Ecología Política (2023) with Verónica Villa, Tatiana Roa Avedaño, Gabriela Cabaña, Larry Lohmann
“Anthropology and Degrowth: where to next?“. Undisciplined Environments (2023).
“Las mil promesas del hidrógeno verde“.Nueva Sociedad, digital edition (2022).
“A favor del decrecimiento” CIPER (2022). With Lorenzo Velotti María Paz Aedo.
Cabaña, G. & P. Glatz 2021. Renta básica universal como una política posible y emancipatoria para Chile: impactos sociales y ecológicos de su implementación. In the series Perspectivas: cambio climático, energía y medio ambiente Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
During her Fellowship at the Post Growth Institute (2021-2022) Gabriela wrote in Medium.