Dominic Boyer

Dominic Boyer is a writer, media maker and anthropologist. He currently teaches at Rice University where he also served as Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (2013-2019). His most recent book is Energopolitics (Duke UP, 2019), which is part of a collaborative duograph, "Wind and Power in the Anthropocene," with Cymene Howe, a study of the politics of wind power development in Southern Mexico. With Howe, he also helped make a documentary film about Iceland's first major glacier (Okjökull) lost to climate change, Not Ok: a little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world (2018). In August 2019, together with Icelandic collaborators, Boyer installed a memorial to Okjökull's passing, an event that attracted media attention from around the world. He is pursuing anthropological research with floodies in Houston, Texas, and on electric futures across the world. And he is developing a TV series, Petropolis, about relations and reckonings in Houston TX.

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