Dominic Boyer: 3 books
The Life Informatic
Newsmaking in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it look like, however, from the inside of a news organization? In The Life Informatic, Dominic Boyer offers the first anthropological...
Energopolitics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 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...
by Kate Brown, Dominic Boyer, Robert Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state...