Ethnographies of power : a political anthropology of energy / edited by Tristan Loloum, Simone Abram and Nathalie Ortar

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : politicizing energy anthropology / Tristan Loloum, Simone Abram and Nathalie Ortar -- Southern spectrums : the raw to the smooth edges of energopower / Raminder Kaur -- Ecuadorian Amazonia amidst energy transitions / Chris Hebdon -- 'Nepal's water, the people's investment'? hydropolitical volumes and speculative refrains / Austin Lord and Matthäus Rest -- Energopolitics in times of climate change : productive and unproductive politics of energy infrastructures in Poland / Aleksandra Lis -- The earth Is trembling and we are shaken : governmentality and resistance in the Groningen gas field / Elisabeth N. Moolenaar -- Delving at the core of everyday life : between power legacies and political struggles, the case of wood-burning stoves in France / Nathalie Ortar -- Afterword : people thinking energetically / Leo Coleman

"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"-- Provided by publisher