Saturday, November 22 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM • Dearborn 3 (7th Floor)

Session 144
Landscapes of Power: Environmental Transformations of the 20th Century

Chair: Margot Lurie, University of Chicago

1. Racial Capitalism’s Metabolic Rift: Sharecropping and Extraction in the Great Depression • Sofia Butnaru, University of Chicago.

2. Electrifying Settler Colonialism: The Bureau of Reclamation and Hydropower in the American West, 1902-1933 • Margot Lurie, University of Chicago.

3. Settling Swamps: Terraformations of Waste & Property in 19th-Century Chicago • Nina Olney, University of Chicago.

4. Empire’s Currents: Energy "Transition" from Thermal to Hydro in Colonial Manchukuo, 1934-1944 • Wei Zhou, University of Chicago.

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