"Mining Transitions in Latin America"

Call for Papers-"Mining Transitions in Latin America"

Journal: The Extractive Industries and Society

Publisher: Elsevier

Submission Deadline: 30 Dec 2026

Key Requirements:

• Focus on mining transitions, resource governance, and socio-ecological change in Latin America.

• Strong interest in qualitative and mixed-methods social science contributions.

• Work should engage with place-based transitions, legality/illegality, political ecology, and environmental justice.

Overview

This special issue examines how transition frameworks apply to mining and natural resource governance in Latin America, and where they may need to be revised or resisted. It emphasizes shifting extraction frontiers, post-mining futures, mineral criticality, and the social and ecological legacies of extractivism. The issue seeks work that is grounded in the region’s realities and that connects governance, territorial change, and community conflict.

Key Research Themes

• Energy, sustainability, and post-mining transitions.

• Shifting materialities and locations of extraction.

• Critical minerals, waste recovery, and deep-sea mining.

• Resource nationalism and historical legacies of extraction.

• Legal, informal, and illegal mining distinctions.

• Socio-ecological conflicts and environmental justice.

• Political ecology of the subsoil and resource geographies.

Submission Details

• Submit through the EXIS online submission system.

• Select “VSI: Mining Transitions” as the article type.

• Manuscripts must be original and not under review elsewhere.

• Authors should clearly indicate consideration for the special issue.

Guest Editors

• Gisselle Vila Benites

• Alejandra Villanueva Ubillus

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