Threats to Power
Methane Extraction on Lake Kivu, Rwanda
$122.19
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
How a dangerous gas becomes a tool of national repair in post-genocide Rwanda.
At the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo sits Lake Kivu, an infamous freshwater lake whose scenic beauty conceals vast stores of methane and carbon dioxide. On its shores, internationally financed companies, in partnership with the Rwandan state, have built the world’s only dissolved-methane-to-electricity project.
In Threats to Power, Kristin Conner Doughty situates the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262054843 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262054841 |
| Author: | Kristin Conner Doughty |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Critical Energy Studies |
Critics Review
ENDORSEMENTS
“Ethnographically rich and analytically incisive, Threats to Power fundamentally reframes how we understand renewable energy, showing that transitions are always also transformations of power, territory, and belonging.”
—Omolade Adunbi, author of Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria
“Threats to Power is of value to those concerned with green energy, carceral projects, and the innovations that emerge from the alliance of states’ agendas and scientific expertise. Charting a path from critique to engaged scholarship linking Central Africa and the contemporary US, the book’s powerful postscript works to envision alternative ‘abolitionist’ energy ecologies.”
—Brenda Chalfin, author of Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana
Kristin Conner Doughty
Kristin Doughty is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. She is the author of Remediation in Rwanda.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.