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Cara Daggett

Cara Daggett

Senior Fellow

© RIFS/ Arne Weychardt

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Cara New Daggett ist Autorin und Wissenschaftlerin mit Interesse an Energie- und Umweltpolitik, feministischen Ansätzen zu Wissenschaft und Technologie sowie der Geschichte des Imperialismus. Seit 2017 ist sie Fakultätsmitglied der Abteilung für Politikwissenschaft an der Virginia Tech, wo sie jetzt als Professorin arbeitet.

Ihr Buch "The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work" (Duke, 2019) wurde mit dem Clay Morgan Award für das beste Buch im Bereich der politischen Umwelttheorie und dem Yale H. Ferguson Book Award der International Association Northeast ausgezeichnet und ist in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt worden.

Ihre Arbeiten wurden in Fachzeitschriften wie Environmental Politics, Energy Research & Social Science, Millennium: Journal of International Studies und dem International Feminist Journal of Politics veröffentlicht. Außerdem schreibt sie für ein allgemeines Publikum, erstellt Podcasts und arbeitet mit Künstlerinnen und Architektinnen zusammen, die sich mit Fragen der Energie befassen - insbesondere damit, wie menschliche und nichtmenschliche Aktivitäten als Energie organisiert und bewertet werden.

Gruppen

  • 2023: Fellowship am Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit (RIFS), Potsdam
  • seit 2017: Associate Professor am Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; Faculty Affiliate des Department of Science, Technology and Society und des Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) Ph.D. Program
  • 2016-2017 Postdoc-Stipendiatin der Universität von Südflorida, Tampa, Florida

AUSBILDUNG

  • Ph.D. in Politikwissenschaft, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2016
  • MSc in internationalen Beziehungen, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, Großbritannien, 2005
  • AB in biochemischen Wissenschaften, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2002

  • Kulturelle und politische Dimensionen der Solar- und Windenergie
  • Degrowth und kulturelle Bindungen an energieintensive Lebensweisen
  • ökofeministische Ansätze zur Geschichte der Extraktion und des Imperialismus

Publikationen vor der Tätigkeit am RIFS

MONOGRAPHS

  • 2023. Petro-masculinité. Trans. Clément Amézieux. Marseille, France: Éditions Wildproject.
  • 2019. The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics and the Politics of Work. Duke University Press.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • 2023. Sovacool, B., S. Bell, C. Daggett, J. Firestone, L. Naylor, M. Lennon, J. Klinger, C. Labuski, and K. Leonard. "Pluralizing Energy Justice: Incorporating Feminist, Anti-Racist, Indigenous, and Postcolonial Perspectives." Energy Research & Social Science.
  • 2020. "Energy and Domination: Contesting the Fossil Myth of Fuel Expansion." Environmental Politics 30.4: 644-662.
  • 2020. "Toward Feminist Energy Systems: Why Adding Women and Solar Panels is Not Enough." Co-authored with Shannon Elizabeth Bell and Christine Labuski. Energy Research & Social Science 68 (October).
  • 2018. "Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 47.1: 25-44.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

  • forthcoming. "A Politics of Solar Abundance." In Solarities: Inflections and Refractions. Eds. Jeff Diamanti, Cymene Howe, and Amelia Moore. Punctum Press.
  • 2020. "Earthborn: Maternity and Natality on a Hurting Planet." In Troubling Motherhood: Maternity in Global Politics. Eds. Laura Shepherd, Anna Weissman and Lucy Hall, Oxford University Press.
  • 2020. "Thermodynamics." In A Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen. Eds. Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian. Punctum Press. https://punctumbooks.com/titles/anthropocene-unseen-a-lexicon
  • 2019. "World-Viewing as World-Making: Feminist technoscience and the aesthetics of the Anthropocene." In Science, Technology and Art in International Relations. Eds. Madeline Carr, Renee Marlin-Bennett and Jatinder P. Singh. New York: Routledge.

SELECTED PUBLIC WRITING

  • 2022. "Green-ing masculinity?" Autonomy, July 12, available at https://autonomy.work/portfolio/ecomodern-masculinity/.
  • 2022. "Petro-masculinity and the politics of climate refusal." Autonomy, May 1, available at https://autonomy.work/portfolio/petro-masculinity-climate-refusal/.
  • 2020. "The Melodrama of Climate Change Denial," interview in Green European Journal, March 11, available at https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-melodrama-of-climate-change-denial/.
  • 2019. "Fight or switch? How the low-carbon transition is disrupting fossil fuel politics," The Conversation, Nov 22. [Over 11,000 readers, picked up by various news outlets including San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Houston Chronicle.]

SELECTED KEYNOTES

  • 2023. "Desiring Energy: Toxic Fantasies of Fuel, Freedom, and Work." Post-work ecologies. Queen Mary University, London. June 8.
  • 2022. "Renewable Masculinities." Petrocultures Annual Conference, Stavanger, Norway, August 25-27.
  • 2022. "Renewable Masculinities." Energy and Climate Transformations: 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science, Manchester, UK, June 20-23.
  • 2020. "Energy: A Geo-Theology of Work." Towards a new eco-social imagination: Narratives and transitions in the face of the crisis of civilization. MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, March 5.
  • 2019. "Genre Trouble on a Warming Planet: Countering Far Right Melodrama." Political Ecologies of the Far Right. Lund University, Lund, Sweden, November 15-17.

  • 2021. Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award for "Toward Feminist Energy Systems," co-authored with Shannon E. Bell and Christine Labuski, presented by the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociology Association
  • 2021. Albert Lee Sturm Award for Faculty Excellence in Research, presented by the Mu of Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Virginia Tech
  • 2020-2021. Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award from the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
  • 2020. Yale H. Ferguson Book Award presented by the International Studies Association-Northeast, for "the book that most advances the vibrancy of international studies as a pluralist discipline"
  • 2020. Clay Morgan Book Award for the Best Book in Environmental Political Theory, presented by the Environmental Political Theory Section of the Western Political Science Association
  • 2017. A. Leroy Bennett Award, for the best paper presented at the 2016 ISA Northeast Regional Conference by a scholar who holds a PhD