Energopolitics : wind and power in the Anthropocene / Dominic Boyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyer, Dominic, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wind power--Research--Mexico--Tehuantepec, Isthmus of.

Wind power.

Renewable energy sources--Mexico--Tehuantepec, Isthmus of.

Renewable energy sources.

Renewable energy sources--Political aspects.

Electric power production--Mexico--Tehuantepec, Isthmus of.

Electric power production.

Energy industries--Mexico--Tehuantepec, Isthmus of.

Energy industries.

Energy development--Political aspects.

Energy development.

Energy policy--International cooperation.

Energy policy.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Wind power--Research.

Mexico.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Wind and power in the Anthropocene

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

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 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.00Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (2 volume set): 9780822304240 (pbk.)0Vol. 'Energopolitics': 9781478003137 (hbk.) / 9781478003779 (pbk.)0Vol. 'Ecologics': 9781478003199 (hbk.) / 9781478003854 (pbk.).

Contents:

Joint preface to Wind and power in the Anthropocene / Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer

Ixtepec

La Ventosa

Oaxaca de Juárez

Distrito Federal

Guidxiguie (Juchitán de Zaragoza)

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Boyer, Dominic. Energopolitics.

ISBN:

9781478004394

1478004398

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