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Interview: The anthropology of energy

Chapter of: Energy Worlds in Experiment(pp. 194–208)

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Metadata
TitleInterview
SubtitleThe anthropology of energy
ContributorDominic Boyer(author)
James Maguire(author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightDominic Boyer interviewed by James Maguire
PublisherMattering Press
Published on2021-05-01
Page rangepp. 194–208
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Dominic Boyer

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-406X

Dominic Boyer teaches at Rice University where he also served as Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (2013–2019). He is currently pursuing anthropological research with flood victims in Houston, Texas, and on electric futures across the world. His most recent book is Energopolitics (Duke, 2019), which is part of a collaborative duograph, “Wind and Power in the Anthropocene,” with Cymene Howe, which studies the politics of wind power development in Southern Mexico. With Howe, he also helped make a documentary film about Iceland’s first major glacier (Okjökull) lost to climate change, Not Ok: A Little Movie about a Small Glacier at the End of the World (2018). In August 2019, together with Icelandic collaborators they installed a memorial to Okjökull’s passing, an event that attracted media attention from around the world.

James Maguire

(author)
Assistant Professor at IT University of Copenhagen
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5081-1811

James Maguire is Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the manifold interfaces between, and within, environmental and digital concerns. His current book project is an ethnographic exploration of the temporal and political conse- quences of energy extraction in Iceland. His ongoing research is oriented towards sustain- able digitalization; an enquiry into how digitalization has become an object of attention for sustainable thinking. This involves projects that explore the paradoxical relationship between the deleterious environmental effects of digital processes and their promissory imaginaries of climate mitigation, as well as those that speculate about, and activate, alternative ways of creating more ethically inflected digital futures.