CEE Affiliate Gianfranco Selgas and a team of researchers have published a special section in Environmental Humanities, titled “Energy Matters: Latin America and the Cultural Critique of Energy,” has just been published and is now available online.
Also potentially of interest, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London is hosting a book launch event online to be held Wednesday 16 April. Please register at the link above.
The full issue is available here.
Below is the list of contributors:
- Preface to “Energy Matters” (Imre Szeman)
- Energy Matters: Latin America and the Cultural Critique of Energy (Gianfranco Selgas; Manuel Silva-Ferrer)
- Energy and Aesthetics of Landscape in Latin America: On the Art of Carolina Caycedo and Jeison Sierra (Gabriel Rudas Burgos)
- Petropoetry as Edaphology: Crude Materials and Subsoil Energies in Venezuelan Poetry (Gina Saraceni)
- Lithium and the Cinematic Temporalities of Argentina’s Energy Transition (Paul R. Merchant)
- Infrastructures of the Anthropocene: A Fictional Ethnography of a Lithium Atom (Raúl Rodríguez Freire)
- Flooded Lives: Amazonian Visual Culture and the Ruins of Hydropower in Brazil (Jamille Pinheiro Dias)
