Ethnographies of Power

Tristan Loloum is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, HES-SO Valais-Wallis. His research on energy and society explores the role of culture and politics on the public understanding of power infrastructure and climate change.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Politicizing Energy Anthropology

Tristan Loloum, Simone Abram and Nathalie Ortar



Chapter 1. Southern Spectrums: The Raw to the Smooth Edges of Energopower

Raminder Kaur



Chapter 2. Ecuadorian Amazonia amidst Energy Transitions

Chris Hebdon



Chapter 3. ‘Nepal’s Water, the People’s Investment’? Hydropolitical Volumes and Speculative Refrains

Austin Lord and Matthäus Rest



Chapter 4. Energopolitics in Times of Climate Change: Productive and Unproductive Politics of Energy Infrastructures in Poland

Aleksandra Lis



Chapter 5. The Earth is Trembling, and We Are Shaken: Governmentality and Resistance in the Groningen Gas Field

Elisabeth N. Moolenaar



Chapter 6. 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



Index