| Title | Five theses on energy polities |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Brit Ross Winthereik(author) |
| Stefan Helmreich(author) | |
| Damian O’Doherty(author) | |
| Mónica Amador-Jiménez(author) | |
| Noortje Marres(author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/five-theses-on-energy-polities |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Brit Ross Winthereik, Stefan Helmreich, Damian O’Doherty, Mónica Amador-Jiménez, Noortje Marres |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2021-05-01 |
| Page range | pp. 95–118 |
| Language | English (Original) |
Brit Ross Winthereik is full Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen in the Technologies in Practice group and head of the Center for Digital Welfare. She has published on public sector digitalisation, information infrastructures, and ethnography for anthropology and STS audiences. She is co-author of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Infrastructures and Partnerships (MIT Press, 2013) with Casper Bruun Jensen, and co-editor of Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures (Bloomsbury, 2019) with Simone Abram and Thomas Yarrow, and of Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke, 2021) with Andrea Ballestero. She is part of the Anthropology of Technology network which edits Handbook for the Anthropology of Technology (Palgrave Handbook Series, 2022). She is a frequent participant in public debates on issues related to public digitalization, and appointed member of the Digital Advisory Council for the Academy of the Technical Sciences in Denmark. She was PI of the Alien Energy project (2013–2016) and of the Data as Relation project (2017–2020).
Stefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (University of California Press, 2009) and of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton University Press, 2016). His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, American Anthropologist, and The Wire.
Damian O’Doherty is Professor of Management and Organization at the Alliance Manchester Business School where he is director of the Manchester Ethnography Network and co-founding director of BEAM – the nuclear and social science research network, at the Dalton Institute of the University of Manchester. Damian is an organization theorist who works ethnographically in organizations, broadly defined, through which he seeks to reanimate latent politics at play in organizations. He has published widely in the academic press and currently serves as associate editor for the journal Organization and was former editor in chief for Culture and Organization (2008–2011).
Mónica Amador-Jiménez is a Research Associate at the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol in the interdisciplinary research project ‘BioResilience: Biodiversity Resilience and Ecosystem Services in Post-Conflict Socio-Ecological Systems in Colombia’. Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oslo, with research experience on armed and environmental conflicts in Colombia. Master’s in gender and cultural studies from the University of Chile, and professional experience at UNHCR and UNDP related to advocacy and research about Colombian refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in South America.
Noortje Marres is Professor in Science, Technology and Society and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. Her work investigates issues at the intersection of innovation, everyday environments and public life: the role of mundane objects in environmental engagement, intelligent technology testing in society, and changing relations between social life and social science in a computational age. She also contributes to methodology development, in the area of issue mapping. Noortje studied sociology and philosophy of science and technology at the University of Amsterdam, and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at the University of Leiden. She published Material Participation (Palgrave, 2012) and Digital Sociology (Wiley, 2017), and with Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie edited Inventing the Social (Mattering Press, 2018). More information at www.noortjemarres.net.