Environmental Justice Seminar Series - Gökçe Günel
Thursdays at Noon in March and April, bring your lunch and join Environmental Justice Colleagues to consider new directions in scholarship, learning, and practice
Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (and beyond).
Gökçe Günel, Assistant Professor in Anthropology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Rice University
Introduction: Dr. Laura Beny, Professor, UM Law and Associate Director UM Center for African Studies
Commentator: Maisy Rohrer, UMSEAS Masters Student in Environmental Justice
Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Rice University. Her latest book Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019) focuses on the construction of renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures in the United Arab Emirates, more specifically concentrating on the Masdar City project. Currently, she is at work on a second book project provisionally titled Energy Accumulation. This book seeks to criticize the unilinear logics of the energy transition narrative by studying the emergence of a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana. Dr. Günel finished her PhD in Anthropology at Cornell, and has served as Cultures of Energy Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University (2012-2013), ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at Columbia University (2013-2016) and Assistant Professor in Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona (2016-2019). Her articles have been published and are forthcoming in Limn, Ephemera, Engineering Studies, Public Culture, Anthropological Quarterly, The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, The ARPA Journal, Avery Review, PoLAR, Log, e-flux, Perspecta and South Atlantic Quarterly. In collaboration with Saiba Varma and Chika Watanabe, Dr. Günel co-authored "A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography” (2020). She has also contributed to edited volumes, such as Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary (Lars Müller, 2016), Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon (Punctum Press, 2019), The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress (NYU Press, 2019), Frontier Assemblages (Wiley, 2019) and Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects (Reaktion, forthcoming).
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