DPhil Student
Green Templeton College
Thesis: Entangled shades of green: The socio-ecological effects of whole energetic systems low-carbon transitions
Research interests:
Science and technology studies, medical anthropology, energy, health, social theory, citizen science, multi-methods
Biography/Research:
Cristián Navarrete is a sociologist and MPhil in sociology alumni from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research draws on studies of science, technology and medicine, to address population health issues from a sociohistorical perspective. He has conducted research on scientific uncertainty, antimicrobial resistance, tailing damns, green hydrogen, the concept of emergence, realism, causal mechanisms, and future studies. He is interested in the nexus between science, health, and society, and meta-theoretical questions about the nature of society and scientific explanation.
His current anthropology DPhil project deals with the effects that multi-sectorial change of technologies due to low-carbon energetic transitions has in local communities’ wellbeing and their environment, as well as how does state-action shape those effects. Combining ethnographic and quantitative approaches, the project will produce a novel socio-environmental burden longitudinal dataset (2005-2023), alongside comparative case studies to better understand interactive effects of whole system low-carbon energetic transitions.
Websites:
https://crisnavarrete.github.io/cnavarrete/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KwHx9pAAAAAJ&hl=es
Email:
cristian.navarreteoyanedel@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Publications:
Navarrete, C. Campos-Medina, F. & Ojeda-Pereira, I. (2025). Opening the Methodological Black Box in Science and Technology Studies of the Future(s). Shadows and Proposals. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103713
Navarrete, C. (2024). Rearticulating Realism: Chains of Reference and Epistemic Success in the Sciences. Sociological Theory, 42(4), 354-379. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751241291831
Fryer, T & Navarrete, C. (2024). Revisiting Realist Theory of Science: A practical guide.
Navarrete, C. (2024). Shifting scales and temporalities: Socioecological challenges from the Antibiocene to the environmental debate. Cuadernos de Teoría Social, 10(19), 42-73. https://doi.org/10.32995/0719-64232024v10n19-159
Fryer, T & Navarrete, C. (2024). A short guide to ontology and epistemology: why everyone should be a realist. (3rd Ed.).
Navarrete, C. & Fryer, T. (2023). Redefining Emergence: Making the Case for Contextual Emergence in Critical Realism. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(2), 167–184. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12414
Elder-Vass, D., Fryer, T., Groff, R. P., Navarrete, C., & Nellhaus, T. (2023). Does critical realism need the concept of three domains of reality? A roundtable. Journal of Critical Realism, 22(2), 222-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2023.2180965
Reyes, J., Ortega, C., Acuña, M. J., Campos, C., Celis, J., González, J., Ludueña, A., Martínez, N., Navarrete, C., Neira, D., Prater, V., Tobar, V. (2021). Dinámicas de división del trabajo en base al género en familias chilenas durante la crisis Covid-19. In UC Propone 2020. Centro de Políticas Públicas UC.
Fryer, T. (2020). Una Breve Guía para la Ontología y Epistemología: Por qué todos debiesen ser realistas críticos (Navarrete, C. Trad.).
