Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern
Mark C. Elliott, Elizabeth J. Perry, Ian J. Miller, and Andrew D. Gordon
My dissertation argues for the centrality of energy to the rise of technocratic regimes. It does this through a study of the fossil fuel industry in Northeast China – a region once commonly referred to as Manchuria. Mindful of the ways in which Manchuria’s rich hydrocarbon resources were extracted, produced, circulated, consumed, and controlled, the project links energy flows to broader processes of social, political, and environmental change. In so doing, this work demonstrates how the techniques and technologies by which states and their subsidiaries sought to master energy resources were inseparable from the wider experience of the industrial modern age.
Histories of East Asia: China (Visiting Lecturer, Brown University) Science and Technology in Modern Chinese History (Visiting Lecturer, Brown University)
“Grounds of Contention: Geopolitics and Geology in a Northeast Chinese Coal Mining Town,” New York Conference on Asian Studies, September 27-28, 2013 "Carbon Technocracy: Energy, Economy, and Expertise in Japanese Manchuria,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 21-24, 2013 “Teikoku no ‘jikkenshitsu’ – saitan gijutsu to Bujun tankō wo chūshin ni” 「帝国の「実験室」－採炭技術と撫順炭鉱を中心に」 (Empire’s “laboratory”: a focus on coal mining technology and the Fushun collieries), 日本植民地史研究会大会 (Annual conference of the research group on Japanese colonial history), July 8, 2012 “Nengyuan, jingji, jishu – Fushun meikuang de shehuizhuyi gongyehua” «能源.經濟.技術— 撫順煤礦的社會主義工業化» (Energy, Economy, and Expertise: Socialist Industrialization at the Fushun Collieries), 中國當代史高級研修班 (Advanced Research Workshop for Contemporary Chinese History), May 27-June 6, 2012 “Fueling Fears: Energy Scarcity, Shale Oil Development, and Japan’s Imperial Enterprise in Manchuria,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 15-18, 2012
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Dissertation Fellowship; D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Dissertation Fellowship; Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship