Gökçe Günel is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Rice University. Her latest book Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, & Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019) focuses on the construction of renewable energy & clean technology infrastructures in the United Arab Emirates, more specifically concentrating on the Masdar City project. Her articles have been published and are forthcoming in Log, e-flux, Public Culture, Anthropological Quarterly, Engineering Studies, & South Atlantic Quarterly among others. Currently, she is working on a book on electricity production in Ghana, provisionally titled Energy Accumulation.

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