Hernan Bianchi Benguria, Human Geography PhD Student

Home Campus:
U of T St. George
Other Degrees:
Architect and Master’s in Urban Development, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2008.
MDesS Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2017.
Honours & Awards:
Canada Program Research Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, 2017–18.
Supervisor(s):
Dr. Scott Prudham
Contact Information:
Office: Room 588, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Phone: (857) 999-5723
email: hernan.bianchibenguria@mail.utoronto.ca
Personal Website: http://harvard.academia.edu/HernanBianchi
Research Interests:
- Resource Extraction
- Territorial Dispossession
- Political Ecology
- Electromobility & ‘Green’ Energy
- Andean Plateau & Atacama Desert
Teaching This Academic Year:
Teaching Assistant:
JGE331H1F – Resource & Environmental Theory
GGR334H1F – Water Resource Management
Selected Publications:
Bélanger, Pierre, Ghazal Jafari, and Hernán Bianchi Benguria. 2016. “Dear Mr. Jencks…” Open Letters 40, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 7 October 2016. http://www.openletters-online.com/issue-40-Belanger-Jafari-and-Bianchi-Benguria-to-Charles-Jencks.
Bélanger, Pierre, Ghazal Jafari, and Hernán Bianchi Benguria. 2017. “The Missing 400: On the Omission of Women from the Urban Environment.” Video, 08:28, 22 January 2017. https://vimeo.com/200606763.
Bianchi Benguria, Hernán. 2008. “Uso y Movilidad de la Bicicleta en la Ciudad: Plan de Incentivo al Transporte No Motorizado (TNM) en Recoleta.” Master’s thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Bianchi Benguria, Hernán. 2017. “Desert Treatise: Undermining State Borders Across Lithium Hinterlands of the Andes.” Master’s thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Bianchi Benguria, Hernán. 2018. “Into Thin Air.” In Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire, edited by Pierre Bélanger, 110–17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.