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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/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/124e44be-0e0b-458b-83d7-781db9284dd3