Camila Albornoz
I am a social anthropologist with a Master’s degree in Urban Development from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. I have worked as a research assistant, examining the intersections between the environment, technology, and socio-technical imaginaries. My early research addressed the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence, particularly its intensive water consumption. Growing up in Chilean Patagonia profoundly shaped my sensitivity to questions of territory, ecology, and development, and inspired my current doctoral project on the expansion of the green hydrogen industry in this region. My research interests include science and technology studies, more-than-human perspectives, decolonial theory, and urban anthropology.
Contact: camila.albornoz@lmu.de
My PhD project examines how visions of green development linked to the green hydrogen industry emerge, circulate, and are contested in Chilean Patagonia. Through a multi-sited ethnography in Patagonian, I investigate how local communities negotiate the socio-ecological promises and frictions of large-scale renewable energy transitions.
Green Hydrogen Futures: exploring the socio-ecological implications and narratives of green development in Patagonia
My PhD project examines how visions of green development linked to the green hydrogen industry emerge, circulate, and are contested in Chilean Patagonia. Through a multi-sited ethnography in Patagonian, I investigate how local communities negotiate the socio-ecological promises and frictions of large-scale renewable energy transitions.