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oapen-20.500.12657-249012021-12-07T11:00:09Z Energopolitics Boyer, Dominic anthropocene energy power development Mexico bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography 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. 2019-07-18 10:09:36 2020-04-01T10:13:26Z 2020-04-01T10:13:26Z 2019 book 1005200 OCN: 1135846387 9781478003137 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24901 eng Wind and Power in the Anthropocene application/pdf n/a 9781478004394.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/energopolitics Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478004394 10.1215/9781478004394 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 81285dbd-e0d5-41f2-b8db-6bc5d8055535 9781478003137 280 Durham, NC 2019-07-18 09:46:57, Funder name: The Fondren Library at Rice University/Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem/Acronym: TOME Rice University William Marsh Rice University open access
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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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