Geography 693E - S-Energy&InfrastructureNetwork

This is an intensive graduate reading and discussion seminar, which approaches infrastructure networks as geographically interconnected constellations of technology and material flow, organized by institutions, policy, and economic and political relationships. Many of the readings will draw from the professor's expertise in dams, hydropower, and electric grids and policy, but readings will also touch on other water and energy infrastructure and policy, transportation networks, and perhaps other kinds of infrastructures.

About one third of the readings will be by geographers, one third by historians, and one third by other social scientists and analysts. Students will write short weekly essays on the readings. The final project will be a review of a book of the student's choice, to be submitted for publication.