Associate Professor, Geography and Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Biography
Arthur Mason is a political anthropologist specializing in energy security and ecological vulnerability in the global North. Dr. Mason holds a Visiting Senior Fellow position in the Department of Anthropology at London School of Economics and Political Science. His books Energy Capitol and Consulting Energy explore relations among political elites alongside intermediary experts with knowledge of energy development futures. His edited volumes include Arctic Abstractive Industry and Subterranean Estates. He is currently involved in Mapping the Corridor of Impact edited volume project (with Michael Watts and Caura Wood) to be presented at Energy Ethics 2026 at University of St Andrews.
Selected publications
Energy Images: Aesthetics of Resemblance and Form. London: Routledge, 2026.
Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making. London: Routledge, 2025 (with a Foreword by Dominic Boyer).
Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form. London: Routledge, 2024.
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North. London: Berghahn Press, 2022 (editor).
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016 (editor with Michael Watts and Hannah Appel).
