Dominic Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factors-from the legacies of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance to state bureaucracy and corporate investment-while outlining the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power.
Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS), and author of The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era. Energopolitics is one half of the duograph Wind and Power in the Anthropocene; Ecologics, by Cymene Howe, is the other half.