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Transforming Power Energy, Environment, and Society in Conflict
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
275 Pages
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Routledge
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In 1934, Lewis Mumford critiqued the industrial energy system as a key source of authoritarian economic and political tendencies in modern life. Recent debate continues to engage issues of energy authoritarianism, focusing on the contest between energy-driven globalization (the spread of energy deregulation and the simultaneous consolidation of the oil, coal, and gas industries) and the so-called... Read more
1: Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse; 1: Energy and Poverty; 2: Energy, Economy, and Poverty: The Past and Present Debate; 3: Unraveling Relationships in the Energy-Poverty-Gender Nexus; 2: Energy and Security; 4: Protecting Overseas Oil Supplies: The Globalization of the “Carter Doctrine”; 5: Nuclear Power in an Age of Global Terrorism: Implications for Energy and National Security; 3: Energy and Globalization; 6: The Political Economy of Electricity Liberalization; 7: The World Bank’s Support for Large Dams: A Case of Institutional Amnesia?; 4: Energy and Environment; 8: Can Geosequestration Save the Coal Industry?; 9: From Love-ins to Logos: Charting the Demise of Renewable Energy as a Social Movement
Biography
Dietrich Kebschull
