Multiple Energy Landscapes

Author(s)

Giorgio Brocco

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.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)

Volume

45

Pages

1-8

No. of pages

8

ISSN

1081-6976

DOI

https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1111/plar.12478

Publication date

2022

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504017 Cultural anthropology

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/multiple-energy-landscapes(124e44be-0e0b-458b-83d7-781db9284dd3).html