C Howe
Biographic Data
| ID | 67396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Howe |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Howe |
| SIGNATURE | HOWE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9361-3812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 356 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Elements in place
This Commentary extends interspecies intersectionality by elaborating how the elements, in place, shape cases of more-than-human resistance. First, elemental forms – as non-biological entities – are shown to perform acts of more-than-human resistance. Second, the Commentary demonstrates how place features in resistance as a site of both ontological composition and epistemic possibility.
Melting glaciers as symbols of tourism paradoxes
Elemental Ethnography
The elements are all around us, all the time. They create our context in the disposition of weather. But they also compose us, giving us our bodily form through structures such as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Elements are also, historically and into the present, objects and processes that comprise and transform the world: earth and wood, air and water, fire and ether, space and metal, cloud and fog. Given all that the elements are, all that they…
Afterword
Recently, a massive storm descended upon the city where I live. People died, the wind moaned, and electricity was knocked out for days. Powerlines were downed and intersections snarled with fallen trees and debris. The earth refused to bear any more water, which had come in an abundance that few had predicted. Like many households in the storm struck region, a friend of mine found himself and his family without running water for several days; the…
Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities
Recent developments in energy social science and humanities (SSH) research raise two questions that this Dialogue jointly addresses. How do these fields of enquiry matter? And relatedly, how can we engage across our scholarly praxes and differences to complement and bolster the strengths of each field? These fields include energy anthropology, energy geography, energy science and technology studies, and energy humanities more broadly. We argue th…
“Grump Mountain”
Environmental narratives—such as the genre of climate fiction—have been the topic of much theorization and discussion for their potential to enrich human ways of thinking about the nonhuman environment. In this paper, we discuss the responses of a small sample of participants who watched a short climate fiction narrative, the trailer to a documentary called Not Ok: A Little Movie about a Small Glacier at the End of the World. Using discourse anal…
The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations
Focusing on the life and death of Okjökull, the first of Iceland's major glaciers to disappear because of anthropogenic climate change, this article discusses the complex relationships between cryospheres and human communities in Iceland. It asks how distinctions between non-living entities and living beings can offer insights to anthropology, and transdisciplinarily, as a model for recognising mutual precarities between the living and non-living…
Afterword
Afterword to "Contesting Transitions" special issue, eds. Mark Goodale and Zeynep Oguz
Unsettling extractivism
Drawing inspiration from new work across the fields of political ecology, plantation and abolition studies, critical Indigenous studies, and racial capitalism, this Introduction to a special issue of The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology locates extraction within an account of property as a system of racialized exploitation. Aware of the risks of a cosmopolitics that romanticizes non-Western value systems as largely untouched b…
Extractivism's limits
In this multiauthored conversation on the limits of extractivism, Ryan Cecil Jobson, Macarena Gómez Barris, Cymene Howe, and Mareike Winchell collectively reflect on the erasures and displacements of extractivism, and how it works to produce affective and material outcomes. They take time to imagine the possible, or the aspirational, futures in a postextractive world or worlds, while recognizing that "extractivism" itself has become a way of mark…
The hair she grew then has long since been cut
This piece is part of a special section of "hundreds" in honor of Kathleen Stewart. It reflects on ethnographic looking, mind games, time's passage, and the odd punctuations of living
Joint Preface to Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Joint Conclusion to Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Greater goods
Renewable energy projects are ethically laudable for their cleansing intentions, but they also produce effects upon other‐than‐human beings in their orbit. Taking the case of Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which is home to the densest concentration of on‐shore wind parks anywhere in the world, and following Foucault's reading of the speech form ‘parrhesia’, this essay argues that the bodies of affected nonhuman beings, particularly those whose …
Sensing Asymmetries in Other-than-human Forms
This essay is an examination of how sensing capacities can draw in, and from, other-than-human entities-both animate and inanimate. Based upon ethnographic field research in Iceland, it describes sensory encounters that are realizable through the bodies, sensations, and ontological status shifts of other beings and entities, namely, in bears and ice and earth. As anthropogenic impacts deepen, the essay argues, sensing ought to be practiced as a c…
Anthropocene Unseen
Circling Back
proclaimed that our mission was to create circles, not pyramids (Boyer, Faubion, and Howe 2015).Back then, Donald Trump was still only the stuff of reality TV and tabloid journalism.Our city of Houston was not yet infamous for new rainfall measurement codes on weather maps, before a slow hurricane named Harvey dumped four feet of rain across too much asphalt and sprawl.But since beginning our work with the journal, we've also seen a great resurge…
Paradoxical Infrastructures
In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure at this historical juncture. Accounting for the conceptual and material capacities of infrastr…
Sound + Vision
Are we satisfied with the conventional media for anthropological research and publication?The question is obviously not a new one.Even before anthropological research and scholarship had consolidated its modern standards of fieldwork, theory, and ethnography in the first decades of the twentieth century, anthropological writing was already part of an ecology of recordings and representations of other ways of being human that ranged from colonial …
Aeolian Extractivism and Community Wind in Southern Mexico
The conditions of the Anthropocene, and the relative novelty of renewable energy forms, demonstrate the experimental plasticity of our era. Existing infrastructures of energy, political power, and capital can resist the more revolutionary ambitions of renewable energy to mitigate climate change and promote collaborative energy production, such as community-owned wind parks. Even when states adopt bold energy transition targets, as Mexico has done…
Queer Anthropology
Latin America in the Anthropocene
Energy creates both possibilities and liabilities. Plentiful, inexpensive energy has long been a cornerstone of modernist dreams of never-ending expansion. While this may be a fantasy, the truth—at least according to overwhelming scientific evidence—is that our use of fossil fuels has led to distressing global consequences. In May 2013, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the average daily level of atmospheric c…
Aeolian politics
Our project in this article is to unwind ‘wind power’ as a consolidated conceptual object and to consider the ventifactual arrangements of its political materiality. In a time when carbon incineration has been exposed as among the greatest ecological threats to humanity and other life on the planet, renewable energy forms, like wind power, are commonly assumed to have a clear, logical, and obvious salvational purpose: a path away from fossilized …
Life Above Earth
Life Above Earth is a deterrestrialization of anthropological thought. It is an introductory exploration of vitalities, materials, and movements that are skyward, spacey, and atmospheric, asking how a new generation of anthropological work might see old habits in novel domains, find habitats where we thought there were none, and entangle our theorizing with intraconnective potential. Anthropocenic times demand an ascendant orientation as we becom…
The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement
Paradoxical Infrastructures
In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure at this historical juncture. Accounting for the conceptual and material capacities of infrastr…
Anthropocenic Ecoauthority
This article analyzes the development of wind parks across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) and, in turn, how a politics of resistance and local perceptions of environmental peril have challenged renewable energy transitions. In the fraught debates surrounding the massive Mareña Renovables wind park, dramatic distinctions have emerged between local perceptions of ecological conditions and forms of environmental knowledge calibrated to …
Aeolian politics
Our project in this article is to unwind ‘wind power’ as a consolidated conceptual object and to consider the ventifactual arrangements of its political materiality. In a time when carbon incineration has been exposed as among the greatest ecological threats to humanity and other life on the planet, renewable energy forms, like wind power, are commonly assumed to have a clear, logical, and obvious salvational purpose: a path away from fossilized …
Aeolian Extractivism and Community Wind in Southern Mexico
The conditions of the Anthropocene, and the relative novelty of renewable energy forms, demonstrate the experimental plasticity of our era. Existing infrastructures of energy, political power, and capital can resist the more revolutionary ambitions of renewable energy to mitigate climate change and promote collaborative energy production, such as community-owned wind parks. Even when states adopt bold energy transition targets, as Mexico has done…
Life Above Earth
Life Above Earth is a deterrestrialization of anthropological thought. It is an introductory exploration of vitalities, materials, and movements that are skyward, spacey, and atmospheric, asking how a new generation of anthropological work might see old habits in novel domains, find habitats where we thought there were none, and entangle our theorizing with intraconnective potential. Anthropocenic times demand an ascendant orientation as we becom…
Transnationalizing Desire
Sexuality, as a conceptual framework, has become a site for several social, moral, and political controversies, economic strategies, existential anxieties and ontological uncertainties. The transformation of sexuality, semiotically and in practice, particularly since the 1950s, reveals itself to be part of wider social and economic processes that have been variously described under the rubrics of 'globalization' (Appadurai 1996; Featherstone 1990…
Transgender Sex Workers and Sexual Transmigration between Guadalajara and San Francisco
Detailed study of microcommunities of transgender sex workers in Guadalajara and San Francisco reveals a close relationship between migratory motives, economic aspirations, and sexuality. The resonance of both cities as "gay meccas" in their respective nation-states provides a background for the operation of these imagined sites of tolerance in transgender sex workers' lives. Migration is gendered and sexualized, and, despite infra-structural sup…
Latin America in the Anthropocene
Energy creates both possibilities and liabilities. Plentiful, inexpensive energy has long been a cornerstone of modernist dreams of never-ending expansion. While this may be a fantasy, the truth—at least according to overwhelming scientific evidence—is that our use of fossil fuels has led to distressing global consequences. In May 2013, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the average daily level of atmospheric c…
Spectacles of Sexuality
This article develops the concept of "televisionary" activism-a mediated form of social justice messaging that attempts to transform culture. Focusing on a locally produced and very popular television show in Nicaragua, I consider how social justice knowledge is produced through television characters' scripting and performance. The ideological underpinnings aspire to a dialogic engagement with the audience, as producers aim to both generate publi…
Sexual borderlands
Greater goods
Renewable energy projects are ethically laudable for their cleansing intentions, but they also produce effects upon other‐than‐human beings in their orbit. Taking the case of Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which is home to the densest concentration of on‐shore wind parks anywhere in the world, and following Foucault's reading of the speech form ‘parrhesia’, this essay argues that the bodies of affected nonhuman beings, particularly those whose …
Sensing Asymmetries in Other-than-human Forms
This essay is an examination of how sensing capacities can draw in, and from, other-than-human entities-both animate and inanimate. Based upon ethnographic field research in Iceland, it describes sensory encounters that are realizable through the bodies, sensations, and ontological status shifts of other beings and entities, namely, in bears and ice and earth. As anthropogenic impacts deepen, the essay argues, sensing ought to be practiced as a c…
Logics of the Wind
energy, energopolitics, anthropology of energy, oil production, wind farm, wind energy, sustainability
Unsettling extractivism
Drawing inspiration from new work across the fields of political ecology, plantation and abolition studies, critical Indigenous studies, and racial capitalism, this Introduction to a special issue of The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology locates extraction within an account of property as a system of racialized exploitation. Aware of the risks of a cosmopolitics that romanticizes non-Western value systems as largely untouched b…
Sound + Vision
Are we satisfied with the conventional media for anthropological research and publication?The question is obviously not a new one.Even before anthropological research and scholarship had consolidated its modern standards of fieldwork, theory, and ethnography in the first decades of the twentieth century, anthropological writing was already part of an ecology of recordings and representations of other ways of being human that ranged from colonial …
Los márgenes del Estado al viento
En el istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, intereses públicos y privados han creado uno de los proyectos de desarrollo de energía eólica más ambiciosos del planeta. Este artículo se interesa en el proceso a través del cual un proyecto ecológicamente relevante y con sólidas bases financieras como el parque eólico "Mareña Renovables" termina fracasando al encontrarse con inesperados niveles de resistencia local. Las razones para el fracaso del parque incl…
The Legible Lesbian
This article considers a precedent-setting murder case in Nicaragua that rendered a conviction based upon the victim's 'sexual option' and status as a 'lesbian.' A significant achievement for advocates in Nicaragua, the case was also a victory for sexual and human rights proponents globally. This article queries how the sexualization of culture can be viewed through the spectacle of Aura Rosa's life, death and symbolic resurrection. Analyzing the…
Epistemic Engineering and the Lucha for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Desde 1992-2007, Nicaragua tuvo la problemática distinción de mantener la ley de sodomía más represiva de todas las Américas. En base al trabajo de campo realizado durante varios años con activistas por lo que ellos llaman 'la lucha' por los derechos sexuales, este artículo se enfoca en la 'máquina epistemológica' de la lucha por los derechos sexuales en Nicaragua. En el texto se analizan los dos pilares que han enmarcado dicho activismo: 'Orgull…
The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement
The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations
Focusing on the life and death of Okjökull, the first of Iceland's major glaciers to disappear because of anthropogenic climate change, this article discusses the complex relationships between cryospheres and human communities in Iceland. It asks how distinctions between non-living entities and living beings can offer insights to anthropology, and transdisciplinarily, as a model for recognising mutual precarities between the living and non-living…
Afterword
Afterword to "Contesting Transitions" special issue, eds. Mark Goodale and Zeynep Oguz
Employment and Economic Growth in Urban China 1949-1957
Journal Article C. Howe. Employment and Economic Growth in Urban China 1949-1957.C. Howe. Wage Patterns and Wage Policy in Modern China 1919-1972 Get access Employment and Economic Growth in Urban China 1949-1957. By C. Howe. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp.xix + 170. £3.00.)Wage Patterns and Wage Policy in Modern China 1919-1972. By C. Howe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 171. £3.95.) S. H. Paine S. H. Pain…
Value Maps
Sexuality, Policy and Human Rights
Foucault, gay marriage, and gay and lesbian studies in the United States
What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan
Sexual borderlands
Transgender Sex Workers and Sexual Transmigration between Guadalajara and San Francisco
Detailed study of microcommunities of transgender sex workers in Guadalajara and San Francisco reveals a close relationship between migratory motives, economic aspirations, and sexuality. The resonance of both cities as "gay meccas" in their respective nation-states provides a background for the operation of these imagined sites of tolerance in transgender sex workers' lives. Migration is gendered and sexualized, and, despite infra-structural sup…
Spectacles of Sexuality
This article develops the concept of "televisionary" activism-a mediated form of social justice messaging that attempts to transform culture. Focusing on a locally produced and very popular television show in Nicaragua, I consider how social justice knowledge is produced through television characters' scripting and performance. The ideological underpinnings aspire to a dialogic engagement with the audience, as producers aim to both generate publi…
Devotional Crossings
Drugs, Thugs and Divas
The Legible Lesbian
This article considers a precedent-setting murder case in Nicaragua that rendered a conviction based upon the victim's 'sexual option' and status as a 'lesbian.' A significant achievement for advocates in Nicaragua, the case was also a victory for sexual and human rights proponents globally. This article queries how the sexualization of culture can be viewed through the spectacle of Aura Rosa's life, death and symbolic resurrection. Analyzing the…
Transnationalizing Desire
Sexuality, as a conceptual framework, has become a site for several social, moral, and political controversies, economic strategies, existential anxieties and ontological uncertainties. The transformation of sexuality, semiotically and in practice, particularly since the 1950s, reveals itself to be part of wider social and economic processes that have been variously described under the rubrics of 'globalization' (Appadurai 1996; Featherstone 1990…
Logics of the Wind
energy, energopolitics, anthropology of energy, oil production, wind farm, wind energy, sustainability
Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival
Book Review| October 01 2011 Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival. By Katherine Borland. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. Pp. Cymene Howe Cymene Howe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2011) 124 (494): 330–331. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0330 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter …
The Energy Reader LauraNader, editor. 2010. Malden, MA
Intimate Activism
Epistemic Engineering and the Lucha for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Desde 1992-2007, Nicaragua tuvo la problemática distinción de mantener la ley de sodomía más represiva de todas las Américas. En base al trabajo de campo realizado durante varios años con activistas por lo que ellos llaman 'la lucha' por los derechos sexuales, este artículo se enfoca en la 'máquina epistemológica' de la lucha por los derechos sexuales en Nicaragua. En el texto se analizan los dos pilares que han enmarcado dicho activismo: 'Orgull…
Anthropocenic Ecoauthority
This article analyzes the development of wind parks across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) and, in turn, how a politics of resistance and local perceptions of environmental peril have challenged renewable energy transitions. In the fraught debates surrounding the massive Mareña Renovables wind park, dramatic distinctions have emerged between local perceptions of ecological conditions and forms of environmental knowledge calibrated to …
Sexual adjudications and queer transpositions
Each of the articles included in this special issue of theJournal of Language and Sexualityasks us to imagine queer im/migration, asylum and sexual citizenship in multiple dimensions and to probe the discursive operations that establish the parameters of sexual subjectivity. This review article argues that these processes are illustrative of "sexual adjudication:" the discursive coordinates, legal logics and linguistic sensibilities that produce …
Queer Anthropology
Latin America in the Anthropocene
Energy creates both possibilities and liabilities. Plentiful, inexpensive energy has long been a cornerstone of modernist dreams of never-ending expansion. While this may be a fantasy, the truth—at least according to overwhelming scientific evidence—is that our use of fossil fuels has led to distressing global consequences. In May 2013, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the average daily level of atmospheric c…
Aeolian politics
Our project in this article is to unwind ‘wind power’ as a consolidated conceptual object and to consider the ventifactual arrangements of its political materiality. In a time when carbon incineration has been exposed as among the greatest ecological threats to humanity and other life on the planet, renewable energy forms, like wind power, are commonly assumed to have a clear, logical, and obvious salvational purpose: a path away from fossilized …
Life Above Earth
Life Above Earth is a deterrestrialization of anthropological thought. It is an introductory exploration of vitalities, materials, and movements that are skyward, spacey, and atmospheric, asking how a new generation of anthropological work might see old habits in novel domains, find habitats where we thought there were none, and entangle our theorizing with intraconnective potential. Anthropocenic times demand an ascendant orientation as we becom…
Los márgenes del Estado al viento
En el istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, intereses públicos y privados han creado uno de los proyectos de desarrollo de energía eólica más ambiciosos del planeta. Este artículo se interesa en el proceso a través del cual un proyecto ecológicamente relevante y con sólidas bases financieras como el parque eólico "Mareña Renovables" termina fracasando al encontrarse con inesperados niveles de resistencia local. Las razones para el fracaso del parque incl…
Paradoxical Infrastructures
In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure at this historical juncture. Accounting for the conceptual and material capacities of infrastr…
Sociology (28 works) · Political science (21 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Human sexuality (9 works) · Politics (9 works)