Ecologics

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Title

Ecologics

Subject

animals

Description

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.

Creator

Howe, Cymene

Source

http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24898

Publisher

Duke University Press

Date

2019

Contributor

sawanah

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Format

pdf

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

DOI 10.1215/9781478004400
ISBN 9781478003199
OCN 1135846690

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