000 01856nam a2200181Ia 4500
001 4878
008 250217s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020 _a9781781681169
100 _aMitchell, Timothy
_96975
245 0 _aCarbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil/
_cTimothy Mitchell
260 _bVerso;
_c2013
300 _a292p;
_c21x13cm
520 _aExamines the simultaneous rise of fossil-fueled capitalism and mass democracy, as well how the changes in fuel production have expanded and restricted possibilities for democratic governance. "Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Timothy Mitchell rethinks the history of energy, bringing into his grasp as he does so environmental politics, the struggle for democracy, and the place of the Middle East in the modern world. With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its production acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West an alternative, and with it came a new form of politics. Oil created a denatured political life whose central object - the economy - appeared capable of infinite growth. What followed was a Western democracy dependent on an undemocratic Middle East. We now live with the consequences: an impoverished political practice, incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to end the age of carbon democracy - namely, the disappearance of cheap energy and the carbon-fueled collapse of the ecological order."-- Publisher's description.
546 _aEnglish
650 _aFossil fuel economy- political aspect
_96976
650 _aHD66-66.2 Industries. Land use. Labor- Management. Industrial management- Work groups. Team work in industry.
_96977
942 _cBK
999 _c4878
_d4878