Kudos to Ideas on Fire author Gökçe Günel @drgokcegunel.bsky.social on the release of Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🎊 dukeupress.edu/floating-power #IoFAuthors

“'Maybe we are transitioning in reverse,' said Paul...The energy landscape he had observed did not correspond to the expected timeline of the energy transition." Read an excerpt from @drgokcegunel.bsky.social's new book @dukepress.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social @patchworkethno.bsky.social

Energy accumulates: Ghana shows that the “energy transition” is more myth than fact - Land and Climate Review

Industry insiders and academics are often wrong to presume renewables will replace fossil fuels, instead of both growing concurrently, says Gökçe Günel.

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Really enjoyed @drgokcegunel.bsky.social's latest book, covering a broad range of issues in energy [geo]politics and theory via a Turkish company's history retrofitting bulk carrier ships into power plants for Iraq, Lebanon and Ghana. Read an excerpt below and stay tuned for an upcoming podcast!

Land and Climate Review@landclimate.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“'Maybe we are transitioning in reverse,' said Paul...The energy landscape he had observed did not correspond to the expected timeline of the energy transition." Read an excerpt from @drgokcegunel.bsky.social's new book @dukepress.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social @patchworkethno.bsky.social

Save 30% on #NewBook "Floating Power" by Gökçe Günel, which uses the development of a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana as a vehicle to analyze how inventive infrastructure shapes South-South relations and embodies broader imaginations of energy futures. buff.ly/5ImujjV

Check out all the new books coming from DUP this month, including “Floating Power” by Gökçe Günel and “Postcolonial Imperialism” written by Joseph Tonda and translated by Cheryl Smeall. The full lineup is on our blog: buff.ly/cb6xrFO

In "Floating Power," Gökçe Günel uses a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana as a vehicle to analyze how inventive infrastructure shapes South-South relations and embodies broader imaginations of energy futures. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/krMlz5j

Limn 13 Spotlight Series Gökçe Günel and Orit Halpern personally examine how human likeness becomes mediated and reclaimed through AI. Limn 13 - Ghostwriters Out now. limn.press/article/orit...

Both @drgokcegunel.bsky.social from Rice and @evgenymorozov.bsky.social from The Syllabus hold the democratic ground. Titus Gebel, however, does not. – cc @greglindsay.org – cc @sarahkmoser.bsky.social

Evgeny Morozov@evgenymorozov.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I had a lot of fun taking on one of the main tech libertarian proponents of private cities in a new episode of Doha Debates. We did not exactly get along! youtu.be/RhkTk0heAPg

The Patchwork Ethnography Winter School will take place at Rice’s Paris Center between December 14-18, 2026. We invite 10 PhD students to explore ethnographic research with us. Please apply by April 13, 2026. For more information: www.patchworkethnography.com/events

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Last Thursday, our department gathered with Associate Professor Gökçe Günel and other members of the Limn editorial collective (@limnpress.bsky.social), Jerry Zee, Jason Cons, and Townsend Middleton, for a Limn party at the Transart Foundation.

Have you watched this episode of Freakonomics yet? Our professor, Gökçe Günel @drgokcegunel.bsky.social, is the guest of episode 643, "Why Do Candles Still Exist?", and she discusses obsolescence, commodities, and energy. Listen to her here: freakonomics.com/podcast/why-...

Really enjoyed recording this podcast with @drgokcegunel.bsky.social Masdar City and NEOM are bizarre developments, where the climate sector's most utopian and most greedy tendencies violently clash. Whatever your take, these petrostate megaprojects are more than mere curiosities.

Land and Climate Review@landclimate.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“These cities have a clear separation from the outside. These utopias will be preserved, while the outside is imagined as a space of catastrophe.” This week, @bertiehb.bksy.social interviews @drgokcegunel.bsky.social about smart city projects in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. www.landclimate.org/...

Are people still fired up about air conditioning? Because I wrote a little something* about how mechanical cooling remade much of the Gulf and how some local architects and climate advocates have begun to question its tradeoffs. *it's not little, it's long-form, but I hope you'll read it 🙏

The Gulf World That Air Conditioning Wrought | NOEMA

From Saudi Arabia to Qatar, rulers have used modern air conditioning to control landscapes and lives, forgoing traditional methods of keeping cool.

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Just launched: Against Catastrophe's the second installation of "Reclaiming Futures":"Planetary Urbanisms." Proud to have my essay along with those from Gökçe Günel,Orit Halpern and Olamide Udoma-Ejorh as well as films from Michaela Büsse and Dele Adeyamo. againstcatastrophe.net

Against Catastrophe

The aim of this project is to interrogate the concept of catastrophe – how it is defined, analyzed, and deployed – and anti-catastrophic practices in an attempt to envision alternatives to our present...

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Limn 12 Spotlight Series Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out. Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now. limn.press/article/pref...

For a comprehensive, insightful summary of Turkish politics in the last 15 years, read “Anything in Turkey” brooklynrail.org/2025/07/fiel...

Anything in Turkey | The Brooklyn Rail

There is a saying in Turkish politics: “This is Turkey, anything can happen.” Deployed at the coffee shop or amidst glasses of anise-infused rakı to cope with tragedy or farcical politics, this state-...

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Limn Issue 12: Climate's Interiors is out now online and in print. Read anywhere with the link below. limn.press/issue/climat...

Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review. limn.press/issue/climat...

LIMN CALL FOR PITCHES - 2026 AND 2027 ISSUES do you have an oblique take on a contemporary issue? are you searching for new models of collaboration and publication? if so... submit a pitch to limn by May 31st submit here: limn.press/collaborate/ link in bio

In May, Rice University students explored urban sustainability in Paris through a three-week course led by Professor Gökçe Günel, combining classroom learning with real-world experience at the Rice Global Paris Center. #RiceSocSci #ShapingTheFuture Watch Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVG...

Rice students explore urban sustainability in Paris Center course

In May, a group of Rice University students found themselves navigating the intricate streets of Paris, not as tourists but as active participants in a course that dug into the complexities of urban sustainability. Led by Gökçe Günel, associate professor of anthropology, the three-week program was hosted by the Rice Global Paris Center, providing students with a unique educational experience that combined classroom learning with real-world exploration. Learn more about the Paris Center here: https://global.rice.edu/pariscenter

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Doç. Dr. Gökçe Günel, yeşil kent projelerinin iklim değişikliğine çözüm olamayacağı gibi, seçilmiş insanları kurtarabilecek, “çöldeki uzay gemileri” olduğunu anlattı Özer Akdemir'in haberi https://www.evrensel...

‘At shipyards in Istanbul’s Tuzla neighbourhood, Karadeniz Holidung retrofits old ships,’ writes Gökçe Günel in the Extensions issue, ‘mainly bulk carriers sitting idle after the Great Recession, to serve as platforms for power generation.’

Offshore grid: the rise of the power ship

Power ships extend the electricity grid at sea, but their geopolitical ramifications reach even further | Essays

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Now accepting pitches for future issues. Got an idea? Invite us to your party, and let’s build Limn 13 together. Website for more details.

🎉We have a contract! @uchicagopress.bsky.social will publish the Patchwork Ethnography textbook. If you're an Early Career scholar, please consider applying to our workshop. We're looking for contributors who can help advance our theorization. Deadline 6 Dec: patchworkethnography.com/events.

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As they finalize the book for their Patchwork Ethnography project, our faculty Dr. Gökçe Günel and her collaborator Dr. Chika Watanabe are looking for early-career scholars who have benefited from the idea of patchwork ethnography. Click this link for submissions: www.patchworkethnography.com/events

Obsolescence comes for everything, even you. Now available in beautiful hard copy. @jamieljones.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @rajpatel.bsky.social @slobster48602.bsky.social

📣 We’re working on a Patchwork Ethnography textbook and we’re looking to include 10 essays from early career scholars who can help us develop our theorizations further. We plan to run remote workshops to build ideas together. More info and apply here: patchworkethnography.com/events

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