2020
DOI: 10.3167/cja.2020.380203
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Carceral Repair

Abstract: This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2016–2019, examines methane extraction operations in Lake Kivu on the Rwanda/DRC border as a lens into understanding how energy futures in Africa are imagined and enacted within national projects of post-war reconstruction. In 2005, scientists suggested that the lake’s dissolved methane risked oversaturation within the century. This spurred state-backed projects to simultaneously prevent a natural disaster and harness the methane to meet Rwanda’s rising electrif… Show more

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“…Studies have focused in particular on sites of production and extraction (Adunbi, 2022; Chalfin, 2020), ingenuity and innovation (Degani, 2022; Günel, 2019), and transition (Dean, 2020; Hughes, 2017), eliciting a rich scholarship on “energopolitics” (Boyer, 2019) and energy ethics (High & Smith, 2019). A recent line of inquiry has investigated how energy and electricity infrastructures both derive from and prop up projects of racial capitalism (Adunbi, 2022; Doughty, 2020; Harrison, 2013a, 2013b; Lennon, 2021; Luke, 2021), distributing and ordering people, technologies, natural resources, political power, and financial capital across landscapes of race, space, and time.…”
Section: Framing the Value Of Energy: Anthropological Perspectivesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studies have focused in particular on sites of production and extraction (Adunbi, 2022; Chalfin, 2020), ingenuity and innovation (Degani, 2022; Günel, 2019), and transition (Dean, 2020; Hughes, 2017), eliciting a rich scholarship on “energopolitics” (Boyer, 2019) and energy ethics (High & Smith, 2019). A recent line of inquiry has investigated how energy and electricity infrastructures both derive from and prop up projects of racial capitalism (Adunbi, 2022; Doughty, 2020; Harrison, 2013a, 2013b; Lennon, 2021; Luke, 2021), distributing and ordering people, technologies, natural resources, political power, and financial capital across landscapes of race, space, and time.…”
Section: Framing the Value Of Energy: Anthropological Perspectivesmentioning
confidence: 99%