In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet s command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements such as the Ghost Dance in North America and the Birsa Munda uprising in India these actions were meant to transform the world and liberate the Xhosa from oppression. Despite the movement s momentous failure to achieve that goal, the event has continued to exert a powerful pull on the South African imagination ever since. It is these afterlives of the...
In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet s command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the result...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another--from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next--transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way?Fueling Culture offers a compendium of...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and i...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another--from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next--transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way?Fueling Culture offers a compendium of...
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and i...