EiJ Concept: Median Income
This essay explains the concept of "median income" and provides resources for teaching it in various contexts.
Energy in COVID-19: Monthly Media Briefs
This timeline serves as a record of the monthly Media Briefs of the Energy in COVID-19 research group.
EIC-19 Past Meetings
This Text Artifact serves as a living record of the Energy in COVID-19 working group's past meetings.
Reading The Birth of Energy
The Energy in COVID-19 working group is hosting a discussion of Cara N.
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The text builds on the concepts "biopower" and "capital" and introduces the concept "energopolitics" to exisiting anthropolitical minima. In the text's introduction, Boyer disucsses the limitations of these concepts when universalized, because they are multiplicities that have been bundled into more nominal forms as part of analytic projects, and then expands on these concepts in order to situate them within anthropolitical and technopolitical domains in Mexico. For example, biopower, which can be defined as a practice of governance that denotes vast networks of enablement with many infrastructures and actors in order to optimize human life, and in Mexico the government put forth discourse around renewable energy development that discusses it as a means of guaranteeing or imporiving the health and welfare of human enviornments, economies, communities, and individuals.
This timeline tracks how California state and local governments tackled the evolving COVID-19 crisis since the first case was detected.