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...: Energy and the Rural-Urban Connection in Mozambique Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga This photo essay takes the example of Mozambique, a country where charcoal has become the major source of energy for urban resi- dents...

... of connectivity and speed. The essay concludes with two case studies: first, Jennifer Egan’s 2011 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad , whose PowerPoint chapter works to visualize the energy demands of a rapidly growing social media culture, and, second, the so-called high-frequency traders who today are making use...

... and austerity in the “Global North.” As states turn away from promises of endless expansion and universal access, the post‐grid imaginary is one way in which states, private utilities, and individuals respond to the urgent need to transform the existing energy system. While a post‐grid imaginary...

...Cymene Howe; Dominic Boyer The conditions of the Anthropocene, and the relative novelty of renewable energy forms, demonstrate the experimental plasticity of our era. Existing infrastructures of energy, political power, and capital can resist the more revolutionary ambitions of renewable energy...

... provides individuals with their energies and cities with their oneiric spaces. Such energies, expressed in absurd quests, unusual obsessions, and bizarre interests cumulatively appear to be producing the city. In many ways the city seems to be a madhouse and madness seems to be running it. The city seems...

... modernity—a unique blend of tantalizing consumerism and piety conceptualized as “neo-Ottoman cool”—in francophone West Africa by analyzing the hugely popular dizi alongside public debates on Turkey's investments in energy, transportation, energy, culture, or construction. Drawing on Joseph Tonda's notion...

...Valeria Procupez This article discusses the unprecedented heat waves affecting the city of Buenos Aires—between December 2013 and January 2014—and the extended power outages that ensued. It focuses on this particular extreme case to examine a broader spectrum of shortcomings regarding energy...

... (disaster, security, energy, and transportation) across four cities of the global South (Bogotá, Karachi, Accra, and Johannesburg). In each city, uncertainty is produced by historical conditions and productive of future possibilities. 2015 cities governance infrastructure planning uncertainty...

... of classic metabolism, in which food was fuel, providing energy and building blocks to the body. Accordingly, metabolic disorders—treatments for which are the explicit aim of much of this research—are increasingly explained and intervened in as regulatory crises, asynchronies, or instances of misinformation...

... of this brief intervention invokes the Greek‐owned tanker in threefold ways: as a geopolitical actor in response to the decolonization of maritime energy routes and to worldmaking at and through the sea; as a floating financial device that produces deterritorialized hierarchies of global space through processes...

..., and creativity. Crossing both axes, water is a key force, as metaphor, energy, and threat. Second, port cities are typically exceptional to the nations to which they pertain, frequently occupying the status of a “minor” city in any given national or regional imaginary, even while part of colonial...

... as a question of visuality, whereby oil workers’ skyward vision in propaganda posters is reoriented to become earthbound gazes whose fixation on data collection and whose receptiveness to energy flows suggest an alternative model of subject formation. The conclusion draws attention to underground fissures...

.... energy market restructuring. The field is composed of university-trained economists who have been hired by consulting firms to pro- duce information about the future of energy markets. The increased visibility of these firms reflects a growing reliance on consultant advisory services that try...

.... Atomic Energy Commission. 1974 . Central Nevada Test Area Demobilization and Restoration Activities, Summary Report . (NVO 152). Las Vegas: Atomic Energy Commission. U.S. Department of Commerce, Coast, and Geodetic Survey. 1964 . Vela Uniform Project Shoal: Seismic Safety Net . (VUF 1011...

... : Cambridge University Press . Suchman Lucy . 2011 . “ Anthropological Relocations and the Limits of Design .” Annual Review of Anthropology 40 , no. 1 : 1 – 18 . Willis Dan , Braham William , Muramoto Katsuhiko , and Barber Daniel , eds . 2017 . Energy...

... . 2010 . “ Dubai Faces Environmental Problems after Growth .” New York Times , October 27 . www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/business/energy-environment/28dubai.html . Baba Alper , eds. 2011 . Climate Change and Its Effects on Water Resources: Issues of National and Global Security...

... Judith . 2015 . Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Chen Zifeng , and Wang Clyde Yicheng . 2020 . “ The Discipline of Happiness: The Foucauldian Use of the ‘Positive Energy’ Discourse in China's Ideological Works .” Journal...

... consequences of new energy projects and public policies, and on the thorny questions of whose vulnerability and security will matter as cities, nations, and international agencies face up to the challenge of global warming That reckoning is inevitable; the only question is when it will begin. We hope...