Ethnographies of Power - (Easa) by Tristan Loloum & Simone Abram & Nathalie Ortar (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. <em>Ethnographies of Power</em> brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>"The strengths of the collection lie primarily in the papers' rich ethnographic examination of the everyday politics engendered by state-initiated and/or directed energy flows and extractions - on existing, typically rural practices with their own temporality and logics."</em> <strong>- Thomas F. Love</strong>, Linfield College</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Simone Abram</strong> is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University and co-director of the Durham Energy Institute. She directs the innovative interdisciplinary MSc in Energy and Society at Durham University, and from 2016 until 2021 she is a co-investigator at the UK National Centre for Energy Systems Integration.</p>
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