MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Event

May 10, 2023
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

In this talk, Victor Seow will be introducing his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Centered on what was once the largest coal mine in East Asia—the Fushun colliery in southern Manchuria—this study examines how the Chinese and Japanese states that jostled for control of its carbon resources became committed to ideals of fossil-fueled developmentalism and mobilized various extractive technologies toward those ends.

Speaker

  • Victor Seow

    Victor Seow is a historian of technology, science, and industry. He is specialized in China and Japan and in histories of energy and work. He is the author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), and is currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China from the 1930s to the present.

    For more about this book, including an excerpt, please see: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/carbon_technocracy

Organizer(s)
Address
MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room
Main Conference Room
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For more information, please contact Thomas Turnbull:
tturnbull@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de 

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2023-05-10T14:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2023-05-10 14:00:00 2023-05-10 15:30:00 Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia In this talk, Victor Seow will be introducing his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Centered on what was once the largest coal mine in East Asia—the Fushun colliery in southern Manchuria—this study examines how the Chinese and Japanese states that jostled for control of its carbon resources became committed to ideals of fossil-fueled developmentalism and mobilized various extractive technologies toward those ends. Speaker Victor Seow Victor Seow is a historian of technology, science, and industry. He is specialized in China and Japan and in histories of energy and work. He is the author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), and is currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China from the 1930s to the present. For more about this book, including an excerpt, please see: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/carbon_technocracy MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany Main Conference Room Thomas TurnbullLisa OnagaSophie Schwarzmaier Thomas TurnbullLisa OnagaSophie Schwarzmaier Europe/Berlin public