Ecologics
Subtitle: wind and power in the Anthropocene
By: Cymene Howe
Contributors: Duke University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781478003199; 9781478003854
Subjects: Energy development; International cooperation; Energy industries; Research; Electric power production; Wind power; Renewable energy sources; Political aspects; Stratigraphic Geology; Energy policy
Other titles: Wind and power in the Anthropocene
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.0In her volume, 'Ecologics', Howe narrates how an antidote to the Anthropocene became both failure and success. Tracking the development of what would have been Latin America's largest wind park, Howe documents indigenous people's resistance to the project and the political and corporate climate that derailed its renewable energy potential. Using feminist and more-than-human theories, Howe demonstrates how the dynamics of energy and environment cannot be captured without understanding how human aspirations for energy articulate with nonhuman beings, technomaterial objects, and the geophysical forces that are at the heart of wind and power.00Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (2 volume set): 9780822304240 (pbk.)0Vol. 'Energopolitics': 9781478003137 (hbk.) / 9781478003779 (pbk.)0Vol. 'Ecologics': 9781478003199 (hbk.) / 9781478003854 (pbk.).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joint preface to Wind and power in the Anthropocene / Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer; title: Wind; title: Wind power, anticipated; title: Trucks; title: Wind power, interrupted; title: Species; title: Wind power, in suspension; title: Conclusion to a duograph.