Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca

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dc.citation.firstpage381en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleAnthropological Quarterlyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage404en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber87en_US
dc.contributor.authorHowe, Cymeneen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-01T19:09:26Zen_US
dc.date.available2014-08-01T19:09:26Zen_US
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article analyzes the development of wind parks across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) and, in turn, how a politics of resistance and local perceptions of environmental peril have challenged renewable energy transitions. In the fraught debates surrounding the massive Mareña Renovables wind park, dramatic distinctions have emerged between local perceptions of ecological conditions and forms of environmental knowledge calibrated to global climate remediation. These divergences indicate distinct ways of imagining and articulating “anthropocenic ecoauthority”—a series of experiential, scientific, and managerial truth-claims regarding ecological knowledge and future forecasting in an era of global anthropogenic change. Whether enunciated by resident communities, state officials, corporate representatives, or environmental experts, ecoauthority gains its particular traction by asserting ethical claims on behalf of, and in regards to, the anthropogenically altered future of the biosphere, human and nonhuman. The article concludes with a discussion of how biopolitical and ecoauthoritative positions coincide, suggesting that although the original sites of biopolitical intervention have been population and the human species, the energic, atmospheric, aquaspheric, and lithospheric shifts that have been dubbed the Anthropocene demand that we account for life in its local dimensions as well as on the scale of the greater planetary bios.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHowe, Cymene. "Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca." <i>Anthropological Quarterly,</i> 87, no. 2 (2014) George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research: 381-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.2014.0029.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.2014.0029en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/76331en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherGeorge Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Researchen_US
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dc.titleAnthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxacaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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