Energopolitics

Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two...

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description Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared fieldsites, archives, and encounters that can be productively read together, yet can also stand alone in their analytic ambitions. In his volume, Energopolitics, Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factors, from the legacies of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance to state bureaucracy and corporate investment. Drawing on interviews with activists, campesinos, engineers, bureaucrats, politicians, and bankers, Boyer outlines the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power. Boyer also demonstrates how large conceptual frameworks cannot adequately explain the fraught and uniquely complicated conditions on the isthmus, illustrating the need to resist narratives of anthropocenic universalism and to attend to local particularities.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-367792025-01-29T07:14:01Z Energopolitics Boyer, Dominic anthropocene energy power development Mexico thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared fieldsites, archives, and encounters that can be productively read together, yet can also stand alone in their analytic ambitions. In his volume, Energopolitics, Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factors, from the legacies of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance to state bureaucracy and corporate investment. Drawing on interviews with activists, campesinos, engineers, bureaucrats, politicians, and bankers, Boyer outlines the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power. Boyer also demonstrates how large conceptual frameworks cannot adequately explain the fraught and uniquely complicated conditions on the isthmus, illustrating the need to resist narratives of anthropocenic universalism and to attend to local particularities. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-07-18 10:09:36 2020-04-01T10:13:26Z 2019 book 1005200 OCN: 1135846387 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24901 9781478003137 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36779 eng Wind and Power in the Anthropocene open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24901/1/9781478004394.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24901/1/9781478004394.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24901/1/9781478004394.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24901/1/9781478004394.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24901/1/9781478004394.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478004394 10.1215/9781478004394 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Rice University 9781478003137 280 Durham, NC open access
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