Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS), University of Lausanne
Biography
Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne. During the academic year 2023-2024, he was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and a member of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford.
He recently directed a four-year research project (2019-2023), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, that studied the lithium energy assemblage, from evaporation mining in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, to sites of lithium-ion battery production and EV manufacture and use, to debates over green energy futures.
His writings on lithium, energy transition, and Anthropocenic futures have appeared in Anthropological Quarterly, Social Research, and Anthropology Today. He is the coeditor (with Zeynep Oguz) of a forthcoming special issue of Critique of Anthropology entitled “Contesting Transitions: New Directions in the Anthropology of Energy, Climate Justice, and Resource Imaginaries” and author of a forthcoming book with the University of California Press on lithium extraction and the contradictions of the green energy transition
