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This chapter focuses on the emergence of energy humanities in relation to posthumanism. The lines of critical posthumanism most influential in energy humanities are those that contend with the actancy of matter and objects, the ecologically situated subject, the embodied nature of matter and energy, and the constitutional nature of geologic materials for human life. Taking an ecological, materialist, and geological turn, energy humanities connects the sensory, embodied, affective, social, and cultural realities of human history and experience with the history of energy extraction, production, and use.

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  4. University of Malta, Msida, Malta

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Badia, L. (2022). Energy Humanities. In: Herbrechter, S., Callus, I., Rossini, M., Grech, M., de Bruin-Molé, M., John Müller, C. (eds) Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1_12-1

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