This path-breaking, comparative volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe.

Powerlines: Cultures of Energy in the Twenty-first Century; 1: Theorizing Energy and Culture; 1: The Fossil Interlude: Euro-American Power and the Return of the Physiocrats; 2: Energy Consumption as Cultural Practice: Implications for the Theory and Policy of Sustainable Energy Use; 1: Theorizing Energy and Culture; 2: Culture and Energy: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology; 3: Considering Energy: E = mc 2 = (magic·culture) 2; 4: Multinatural Resources: Ontologies of Energy and the Politics of Inevitability in Alaska; 5: Siting, Scale, and Social Capital: Wind Energy Development in Wyoming; 6: Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry; 2: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology; 3: Electrification and Transformation; 7: Electrifying Transitions: Power and Culture in Rural Cajamarca, Peru; 8: Space, Time, and Sociomaterial Relationships: Moral Aspects of the Arrival of Electricity in Rural Zanzibar; 9: Emergency Power: Time, Ethics, and Electricity in Postsocialist Tanzania; 3: Electrification and Transformation; 4: Energy Contested: Culture and Power; 10: Eco-risk and the Case of Fracking; 11: Specters of Syndromes and the Everyday Lives of Wyoming Energy Workers; 12: Energy Affects: Proximity and Distance in the Production of Expert Knowledge About Biofuel Sustainability; 13: Local Power: Harnessing nimbyism for Sustainable Suburban Energy Production; 4: Energy Contested: Culture and Power; 1: Energy Contested: Borders and Boundaries; 14: Oil's Magic: Contestation and Materiality; 15: Energy Politics on the ¿Other¿ U.S.-Mexico Border; 16: Beyond the Horizon: Oil and Gas Along the Gulf of Mexico; 1: Energy Contested: Borders and Boundaries; 1: Maximizing Anthropology