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Mallory James
@secondordersocialresearch.com

📖 Would you like to join us next week to discuss the book Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (2022)? 📖 #STS #energy #anthropology #history #energyhistory #technologyhistory Our reading group is meeting for the last time in 2025! (1/6)

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Mallory James
@secondordersocialresearch.com

This multiply-awarded historical book addresses a coal mine and mining town in Northeastern China. Coal extraction was the focus of technological innovation and labor control. Choices made here had ramifications for industrialization, ecology, statecraft, and technology across East Asia. (3/6)

Mallory James
@secondordersocialresearch.com

As we know, societies are struggling with the material and imaginative legacies of fossil-fuel-based 'development.' Seow draws on extensive primary sources, addresses the material peculiarities of coal technologies, and thematizes social power beyond material differences in ways of living. (4/6)

Mallory James
@secondordersocialresearch.com

This reading group is open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the latest publications focused on political ecology, political economy, and energy transitions. ✍️🏼📃 We are a network of scholars who convene virtually every 6 weeks during the academic year to debate and discuss texts. (5/6)