Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran
Interview with Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani about his book Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran. Discusses natural gas as Iran’s industrial accelerant. Examines how natural gas, initially a discarded by-product of oil extraction, became an anti-colonial symbol for self-development and a solution to urban pollution. Covers the challenges of gas transport, the origins of petrochemical industries, and the socio-political tensions arising from uneven energy distribution in the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution.
