Abstract
The volume, Ethnographies of Power edited by Tristan Loloum, Simone Abram, and Natalie Ortar, as well as the “duograph” (two single-authored books with joint preface and conclusion and based on 16 months of fieldwork), Wind and Power in the Anthropocene, composed by Ecologics by Cymene Howe and Energopolitics by Dominic Boyer, succeed in adding new information to existing ethnographic data and theorizing about these topics. The three books mark the arrival of an anthropological attention to the political frictions and social inequalities involved in the (human) neoliberal extraction of new forms of non-carbon renewable energy resources (e.g., wind, water, wood and so on) and the conflicts within political processes of energy transition—from nuclear power and hydrocarbons to renewable energy sources.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) |
Volume | 45 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504017 Cultural anthropology
Keywords
- energy
- energy anthropology
- Renewable energy
- wind