Gökçe Günel
Gökçe Günel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. She is the author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019) and Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations (Duke University Press, 2026).
Issues edited by Gökçe Günel
Articles authored by Gökçe Günel
Duty-Free Art
The Limn interview with novelist and art critic Ben Eastham
Preface: The Great Offshore
The offshore is capitalism’s spatial logic
Orit’s Two Bodies
Limn’s AI gets ahead (and torso) of itself
Right To Repair
An interview with R2R advocate Kyle Wiens
Preface
Illuminating Obsolescence
An “Expensive Toy”
What does Abu Dhabi's green future look like? Gökçe Günel explores Masdar City in a once-promising Personal Rapid Transit Pod.