Cymene Howe: 2 books
Ecologics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...
Intimate Activism
The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene...