Principales proyectos de investigación

• Investigador responsable alterno del “Núcleo Milenio de Investigación en Energía y Sociedad” (NUMIES), segunda fase. Iniciativa Científica Milenio, Ministerio de Economía (2018–2022).
•  FONDECYT–CONICYT (2017–2020). Investigador responsable: “Entierrando el antropoceno: Ensamblando nuevos ecosistemas desde suelos degradados en la región de Atacama”.
• Ureta, Sebastián and Soneryd, Linda. (Investigador responsable). “Assembling transnational toxic bodies: Embodying and mobilizing responsibility on the ‘Arica victims KB v. Boliden Minerals AB’ case”. The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Linköping University, Sweden (2017–2018).
• Investigador responsable del “Núcleo Milenio de Investigación en Energía y Sociedad” (NUMIES), primera fase. Iniciativa Científica Milenio, Ministerio de Economía (2014–2018).
• FONDECYT–CONICYT (2013–2016). Investigador responsable. “El desecho de Chile: Un análisis sociotécnico de prácticas y políticas respecto del manejo de relaves mineros en las últimas dos décadas”. 

Publicaciones más relevantes

Libros y Capítulos de Libros:

• Ureta, S. (2015). Assembling policy: Transantiago, human devices, and the dream of a world-class society. Cambridge, Estados Unidos: MIT Press.
• Ureta, S. (2017). Transantiago o el fallido ensamblaje de una sociedad de clase mundial. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Artículos publicados en Revistas Indexadas

• Ureta, S. and Otaegui, A. (2021). Seeing copiapósols: Anthropogenic soils, strategic unknowing, and emergent taxonomies in northern Chile. Agric Hum Values
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10191-4

• Ureta, S., Cortés, A., Martínez, J., Tello, P., Vera, F. and Valenzuela, C. (2021). Constituting chileans: The cabildos of October 2019 and the trouble of instrumental participation. Social Identities https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2021.1931087

• Ureta, S. y Contreras, A. (2020). “¡Nos vamos a ir toditos para abajo!”: Ontologías subterráneas en conflicto en Tierra Amarilla. Estudios Atacameños, 66, 367–386.
• Ureta, S. (2020). Ruination science: Producing knowledge from a toxic world. Science, Technology & Human Values. Volume, 46(1), 29–52.
• Ureta, S., Lekan T. and Graf von Hardenberg, W. (2020). Baselining nature: Explorations of futures-past in environmental science and policy. Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space, 3(1), 3–19.
• Velho, R. and Ureta, S. (2019). Frail modernities: Latin American infrastructures between repair and ruination. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2(1), 428–441.
• Ureta, S., Flores, P. and Soneryd, L. (2019). Victimisation devices: Exploring challenges facing litigation-based transnational environmental justice. Social & Legal Studies, 29(2), 161–182.
• Ossandón, J. and Ureta, S. (2019). Problematizing markets: Market failures and the government of collective concerns. Economy and Society, 48(2), 175–196.
• Ureta, S., Mondaca, F. y Landherr, A. (2018). Sujetos de desecho: Violencia lenta e inacción ambiental en un botadero minero abandonado de la Región de Atacama, Chile. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 43(3), 337–355.
• Ureta, S. and Flores, P. (2018). Don’t wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, 36(6), 1.063–1.080.
• Ureta, S. (2018). Selling the sociotechnical sublime: Critical reflections on introducing STS to managers of a Chilean mining corporation. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 1(1), 83–97.
• Ureta, S. (2018). Baselining pollution: Producing ‘natural soil’ for an environmental risk assessment exercise in Chile. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 20(3), 342–355.
• Ureta, S. (2017). A very public mess: Problematizing the ‘participative turn’ in energy policy in Chile. Energy Research & Social Science, 29, 127–134.
• Ureta, S. and Alvial-Palavicino, C. (2017). Economizing justice: Turning equity claims into lower energy tariffs in Chile. Energy Policy, 105, 642–647.
• Ureta, S. (2016). Caring for waste: Handling tailings in a Chilean copper mine. Environment and Planning A, 48(8), 1.532–1.548.
• Ureta, S. (2015). A failed platform: The citizen consensus conference travel to Chile. Public Understanding of Science, 25(4), 499–511.
• Ureta, S. (2015). Domesticating homes: Material transformation and decoration among low-income families in Santiago, Chile. Journal of Home Cultures, 4(3), 311–336.
• Ureta, S. (2014). Normalizing Transantiago: On the challenges (and limits) of repairing infrastructures. Social Studies of Science, 44(3), 368–392.
• Ureta, S. (2014). Policy assemblages: Proposing an alternative conceptual framework to study public action. Policy Studies, 35(3), 303–318.
• Ureta, S. (2013). The shelter that wasn’t there: On the politics of coordinating multiple urban assemblages in Santiago, Chile. Urban Studies, 51(2), 231–246.
• Ureta, S. (2013). Because in Chile [carbon] markets work!: Exploring an experimental implementation of an emissions trading scheme to deal with industrial air pollution in Santiago. Economy and Society, 43(2), 285–306.
• Ureta, S. (2012). Waiting for the Barbarians: Disciplinary devices on Metro de Santiago. Organization, 20(4), 596–614.
• Ureta, S. (2009). Manejando por Santiago: Explorando el uso de automóviles por parte de habitantes de bajos ingresos desde una óptica de movilidad sustentable. EURE, 35(105), 71–93.
• Ureta, S. (2008). There is one in every home: Finding the place of television in new homes among low-income population in Santiago, Chile. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 11(4), 477–497.
• Ureta, S. (2008). To move or not to move: Social exclusion, accessibility and daily mobility among low income population in Santiago, Chile. Mobilities Journal, 3(2), 269–289.
• Ureta, S. (2008). Noise and the battles for space: Mediated noise and everyday life in a social housing estate in Santiago, Chile. Journal of Urban Technology, 14(3), 103–130.
• Ureta, S. (2007). Mobilising poverty? Mobile phone use and everyday spatial mobility among low income families in Santiago, Chile. The Information Society, 24(2), 83–92.