Energy Capitol explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium.

Arthur Mason is a political anthropologist specializing in energy politics, ecological vulnerability, and expertise, aesthetics and futurity. Dr. Mason is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at NTNU and Senior Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at LSE. His publications include two edited volumes titled Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North and Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: Millennial Energy

List of Abbreviations

1. Waning Reflection of Status and Collusion

2. Submission and Involvement

3. Events Collective

4. Governor and the New Gas Paradigm

5. Kitchen Cabinet

6. Observation Work

7. Wealth of Knowledge

8. Mexican Standoff

Index