Anthropology: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Wind Power in the Anthropocene
Altered Earth
Just as lands were commandeered and ways of life destroyed in the earlier imperialist search for ... more Just as lands were commandeered and ways of life destroyed in the earlier imperialist search for unending wealth, so too does the new imperialism of green tech and green entrepreneurs raze the remaining vestiges of ecosystems and social systems resistant to global demands for ever more energy. Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec is a highly Indigenous region which has found itself at the leading edge of these renewable energy efforts. It si a microcosm of these global developments in terms of both its productive potential and its political challenges and possibilities. Our fieldwork there allows us to tell this tale from the bottom up, adding to the "democracy of voices" (Chapter 2) that need to be heeded in the Anthropocene.
Focusing on the life and death of Okjökull, the fi rst of Iceland's major glaciers to disappear b... more Focusing on the life and death of Okjökull, the fi rst of Iceland's major glaciers to disappear because of anthropogenic climate change, this article discusses the complex relationships between cryospheres and human communities in Iceland. It asks how distinctions between non-living entities and living beings can off er insights to anthropology, and transdisciplinarily, as a model for recognising mutual precarities between the living and non-living world in the face of anthropogenic climate change. Detailing the authors' ethnographic encounters with Ok mountain and Okjökull (glacier), the authors argue that by attending to non-living forms, and by registering their 'passing' or loss, we are able to document and better comprehend threshold events in the larger life of the planet.
After Oil explores the social, cultural and political changes needed to make possible a full-scal... more After Oil explores the social, cultural and political changes needed to make possible a full-scale transition from fossil fuels to new forms of energy. Written collectively by participants in the first After Oil School, After Oil explains why the adoption of renewable, ecologically sustainable energy sources is only the first step of energy transition. Energy plays a critical role in determining the shape, form and character of our daily existence, which is why a genuine shift in our energy usage demands a wholesale transformation of the petrocultures in which we live. After Oil provides readers with the resources to make this happen
An Account of the Cultures of Energy Podcast as Collaboration—Offered in Podcast Form, of Course
Collaborative Anthropology Today, 2021
This chapter covers the cultures of energy podcast as collaboration, which delves into the aspect... more This chapter covers the cultures of energy podcast as collaboration, which delves into the aspect of the listener experience that demonstrates how much expert knowledge and trade talk a person is willing to absorb and familiarize. It describes podcasts as listening to an entertaining serialized conversation and the ante is a willingness to learn something about the social world. It also emphasizes that the real pleasure of a podcast is imagining oneself as part of an interesting conversation among voices one likes wherein the content of the conversation can be anything. The chapter focuses on the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) at Rice University, which does a podcast on energy or environment issues. It discusses the in-person connection as a compelling way of knowing the voice or the pen beyond the page, and beyond the text that one reads.
A cultural history of the U.S. power grid reveals the system's current failings and its poten... more A cultural history of the U.S. power grid reveals the system's current failings and its potential
In this installment of "Conversations," Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and Marcel LaFlamme, of the C... more In this installment of "Conversations," Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and Marcel LaFlamme, of the Cultural Anthropology editorial team, discuss the ins and outs of publishing a gold open access journal in the field of anthropology. Highlights of the discussion include Cultural Anthropology's move to open access, the ethics of open access, the growth of international readership, ongoing publishing challenges in open access, and the role libraries can play with open access publishing.
This essay is an examination of how sensing capacities can draw in, and from, other-than-human en... more This essay is an examination of how sensing capacities can draw in, and from, other-than-human entities—both animate and inanimate. Based upon ethnographic field research in Iceland, it describes sensory encounters that are realizable through the bodies, sensations, and ontological status shifts of other beings and entities, namely, in bears and ice and earth. As anthropogenic impacts deepen, the essay argues, sensing ought to be practiced as a collaborative effort among human and other-than-human entities. Sensing by other means entails sensing through others’ means and beyond the human sensorium.
The editors' introduction to our first issue as editors of Cultural Anthropology proclaimed that ... more The editors' introduction to our first issue as editors of Cultural Anthropology proclaimed that our mission was to create circles, not pyramids (Boyer, Faubion, and Howe 2015). Back then, Donald Trump was still only the stuff of reality TV and tabloid journalism. Our city of Houston was not yet infamous for new rainfall measurement codes on weather maps, before a slow hurricane named Harvey dumped four feet of rain across too much asphalt and sprawl. But since beginning our work with the journal, we've also seen a great resurgence in unapologetic activism through movements like #BlackLivesMatter (Williams 2015), Standing Rock (Dhillon and Estes 2016), and #MeToo (West 2018). This gives us hope. When we embarked on this collective trip as editors, we were looking for essays that produced the unexpected, that were timely and also untimely. In that ecumenical spirit we announced: "Send us the best there is and we will publish it!" You did. And we did, with a vision of decentralizing authority and responsibility as our guide.
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The conditions of the Anthropocene, and the relative novelty of renewable energy forms, demonstra... more The conditions of the Anthropocene, and the relative novelty of renewable energy forms, demonstrate the experimental plasticity of our era. Existing infrastructures of energy, political power, and capital can resist the more revolutionary ambitions of renewable energy to mitigate climate change and promote collaborative energy production, such as community-owned wind parks. Even when states adopt bold energy transition targets, as Mexico has done, the methods of transition can be deeply problematic.
Our project in this article is to unwind 'wind power' as a consolidated conceptual object and to ... more Our project in this article is to unwind 'wind power' as a consolidated conceptual object and to consider the ventifactual arrangements of its political materiality. In a time when carbon incineration has been exposed as among the greatest ecological threats to humanity and other life on the planet, renewable energy forms, like wind power, are commonly assumed to have a clear, logical, and obvious salvational purpose: a path away from fossilized resources and toward sustainable sources of energy. Mexico has established some of the most far-reaching and comprehensive climate legislation in the world, including mandates for renewable energy production. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the Southern state of Oaxaca, now hosts the densest concentration of on-shore wind development anywhere on the planet. We find, however, that the 'good' of wind is differentially felt. The power of the wind is not singular, but rather as multiple as the world it inhabits. We thus develop an argument against a singular interpretation of 'wind power' and toward a surfacing of wind's manifold effects and ways of mattering. We call this domain: aeolian politics. In this article, we take several snapshots of aeolian politics to help articulate its multiplicity, showing how wind power becomes contoured by land and desire and by infrastructure and technological management. We also see aeolian political life entangled with cosmologies and subjectivities and implicated within the ethical domains of sustainable development.
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