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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Boyer, Dominic (1970-....)
Howe, Cymene
Titre(s) : Wind and power in the Anthropocene [Texte imprimé] : ecologics, energopolitics. Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe
Publication : Durham : Duke University press, 2019
Description matérielle : 2 vol. (250, 257p.) ; 23 cm
Note(s) : 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
field sites, archives, and encounters that can be productively read together, yet
also stand alone in their analytic ambitions.0In 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.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.00The volumes are
also available separately:0Vol. 'Energopolitics': 9781478003137 (hbk.) / 9781478003779
(pbk.)0Vol. 'Ecologics': 9781478003199 (hbk.) / 9781478003854 (pbk.)
Sujet(s) : Industries énergétiques -- Tehuantepec, Isthme de (Mexique)
Énergies renouvelables -- Tehuantepec, Isthme de (Mexique)
Indice(s) Dewey :
301 (23e éd.) = Sociologie et anthropologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781478004240. - ISBN 147800424X (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45791607j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45791607
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