Full 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.
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
