Call for papers: Ethnographies of Energy, Deadline: 21 March 2025

Energy is once again at the forefront of the human imagination of potential futures. Fuel, power, action, spirit, aura, and charisma. Each of these energy forms signifies the vitality of life, hinting at their potential to animate latent worlds, and their presence or absence holding endless possibilities to reconfigure the social order. From the quest to harness clean energy and reduce fossil fuel dependencies in the Anthropocene to the populist energies redrawing the global political order, and from the ‘animal spirits’ in financial markets to the energetic social mobilizations, the effervescence of energy appears at the heart of twenty-first-century future-making. Common to all forms of energy is its capacity to engender change and reproduction, even acceleration of social life.

Call for papers

Please send the following (a) an abstract of about 400-500 words of the proposed paper, and (b) a 1-page CV. The doctoral candidates should additionally send a 1-page overview of their dissertation. The selected participants should send their draft paper (5000-6000 words) before the workshop commences. The applications should be sent to: Frederikke Bencke.