Ecologics - Wind and Power in the Anthropocene

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.

In her volume, Ecologics, Howe narrates how an antidote to the Anthropocene became both failure and success. Tracking the development of what would have been Latin America's largest wind park, Howe documents indigenous people's resistance to the project and the political and corporate climate that derailed its renewable energy potential. Using feminist and more-than-human theories, Howe demonstrates how the dynamics of energy and environment cannot be captured without understanding how human aspirations for energy articulate with nonhuman beings, technomaterial objects, and the geophysical forces that are at the heart of wind and power.

List of contents

Joint Preface to Wind and Power in the Anthropocene / Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer  ix
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction 1
1. Wind  23
2. Wind Power, Anticipated  43
3. Trucks  73
4. Wind Power, Interrupted  103
5. Species  137
6. Wind Power, in Suspension  170
Joint Conclusion to Wind and Power in the Anthropocene / Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer  191
Notes  197
References  223
Index  243

About the author

Cymene Howe

Summary

Cymene Howe traces the complex relationships between humans, nonhuman beings and objects, and geophysical forces that shaped the Mareña Renovables project in Oaxaca, Mexico, which had it been completed, would have been Latin America's largest wind power installation.

Product details

• Authors: Cymene Howe
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781478003854
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0385-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Umweltmanagement, Kulturanthropologie, Mexiko, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik, Energieressourcen, Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, Management / Umwelt, Energiewirtschaft / Erneuerbare Energie, Energie (physikalisch) / Erneuerbare Energie, Regenerative Energie, Erneuerbare Energie, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), Energie (physikalisch), Alternative und erneuerbare Energiequellen und -technik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico