Cymene Howe

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Cymene Howe is a cultural anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States. Her research has focused on environment, inequalities and the anthropology of climate change. She has also been active in multi-modal approaches to knowledge and public anthropology through podcasting, documentary filmmaking and installations, most notably the Okjökull memorial.

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Howe has conducted anthropological field work in Nicaragua, Mexico, Iceland and the United States and she has been the recipient of several research grants, including from the National Science Foundation and The Fulbright Program. She has been an invited Society Scholar in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University and a visiting fellow at Durham University, U.K. From 2015-2018 she served as co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology and was founding faculty of The Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) at Rice University (now the Center for Environmental Studies).[ citation needed ]

With Dominic Boyer, she carried out one of the first major anthropological studies on renewable energy transition.[ citation needed ] The research took place in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec, site of the world’s densest concentration of terrestrial wind parks and became the subject of two books, Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Howe) and Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Boyer). [1] Since 2016, she has also co-produced over 200 episodes of the Cultures of Energy podcast [2] with Boyer.

From 2016-2018, Howe led research in Iceland for “Melt: The social life of ice at the top of the world,” that centered on the cultural impact of Icelandic glacial loss. [3] Based on that project, with Boyer in 2018, she produced and co-directed a documentary film about Okjökull (Ok glacier) the first major Icelandic glacier to be declassified as a glacier due to global warming. The educational film, Not Ok: A little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world, [4] featured the voice of Jón Gnarr as Ok mountain.

In August 2019, Howe and Boyer organized the installation of a memorial to Okjökull, the first of Iceland’s major glaciers to be destroyed by climate change. The memorial event was widely covered by the international news media. [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Howe, Cymene; Boyer, Dominic (2016-05-01). "Aeolian Extractivism and Community Wind in Southern Mexico". Public Culture. 28 (2 (79)): 215–235. doi: 10.1215/08992363-3427427 . ISSN   0899-2363.
  2. ↑ "CENHS @ Rice! » Cultures of Energy Podcasts" . Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  3. ↑ "Sensing Asymmetries in Other-than-human Forms". www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  4. ↑ "not ok movie". not ok movie. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  5. ↑ "Scientists Unveil Memorial To Iceland's 'First' Dead Glacier Lost To Climate Change". Time. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  6. ↑ "A glacier is dead. A monument will tell visitors whose fault it was". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  7. ↑ "Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 2019-08-19. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  8. ↑ Cort, Liz (2008-02-06). "21st Century Sexualities – Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights21st Century Sexualities – Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights". Nursing Standard. 22 (22): 30. doi:10.7748/ns2008.02.22.22.30.b714. ISSN   0029-6570.
  9. ↑ Kampwirth, Karen (2015). "Review of Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 24 (3): 532–534. ISSN   1043-4070. JSTOR   24616530.
  10. ↑ Antillón, Camilo (2015). "Review of Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua". European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (98): 132–134. ISSN   0924-0608. JSTOR   43279261.
  11. ↑ Willow, Anna J. (2019). "Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Dominic Boyer, and: Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Cymene Howe". Anthropological Quarterly. 92 (4): 1261–1272. doi:10.1353/anq.2019.0068. ISSN   1534-1518. S2CID   213306593.
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