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Ethnographies of Power : A Political Anthropology of Energy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loloum, Tristan.
- Series:
- EASA Series
- EASA Series ; v.42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy consumption--Social aspects.
- Energy consumption.
- Energy industries--Social aspects.
- Energy industries.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Power resources--Social aspects.
- Power resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Tristan Loloum is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, HES-SO Valais-Wallis. His research on energy and society explores the role of culture and politics on the public understanding of power infrastructure and climate change. Simone Abram is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University and co-director of the Durham Energy Institute. She directs the innovative interdisciplinary MSc in Energy and Society at Durham University, and from 2016 until 2021 she is a co-investigator at the UK National Centre for Energy Systems Integration. Nathalie Ortar is a senior researcher in anthropology at the ENTPE. Her research interests focus on the meaning of dwelling as well as on the consequences of energy transition in daily life and its moral and symbolic implications. Tristan Loloum is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, HES-SO Valais-Wallis. His research on energy and society explores the role of culture and politics on the public understanding of power infrastructure and climate change.
- Summary:
- Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Politicizing Energy Anthropology
- 1 Southern Spectrums: The Raw to the Smooth Edges of Energopower
- 2 Ecuadorian Amazonia amidst Energy Transitions
- 3 Nepal's Water, the People's Investment? Hydropolitical Volumes and Speculative Refrains
- 4 Energopolitics in Times of Climate Change: Productive and Unproductive Politics of Energy Infrastructures in Poland
- 5 The Earth Is Trembling and We Are Shaken: Governmentality and Resistance in the Groningen Gas Field
- 6 Delving at the Core of Everyday Life - Between Power Legacies and Political Struggles: The Case of Wood-Burning Stoves in France
- Afterword: People Thinking Energetically
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78920-980-3
- 1-80073-038-1
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