Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure and South-South Relations

Visiting Researcher, Gökçe Güne is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Rice University. Her research investigates how infrastructure transforms amid energy and climate change-related challenges. Her first book, Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), focuses on the construction of renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures in the United Arab Emirates, with a specific emphasis on the Masdar City project. Her second book, Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations (Duke University Press, 2026), examines the emergence of a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana, analyzing how such inventive infrastructure shapes South‑South relations and embodies broader imaginations of energy futures.

Dr Günel is one of the editors of Limn and has most recently co-edited Limn 11—The Obsolescence Issue. Dr Günel co-authored "A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography" (2020) and co-leads Patchwork Ethnography. The book Patchwork Ethnography is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in 2027.

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