Manuel Tironi

Manuel Tironi

Manuel Tironi

Manuel Tironi is an Associate Professor and co-convener of the Critical Studies on the Anthropocene group at Universidad Católica de Chile. He is a principal investigator at the Center for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Reduction (CIGIDEN) and at the Millennium Research Nucleus on Energy and Society (NUMIES). His work leverages the environmental humanities, cultural anthropology, and science studies to investigate how environmental justice, more-than-human ethics, and disasters are imagined and articulated in the context of climate change. He co-edited Disaster and Politics: Materials, Experiments, Preparedness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and the forthcoming Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory (Bloomsbury, 2020). Working with Indigenous communities in northern Chile, his current project examines alternative theories and practices for ecological reparation at the intersection of extractivism and geo-climatic disruptions.