David Mcdermott Hughes

Energy Without Conscience

Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity

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Produktbeschreibung

David McDermott Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and the author of Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging and From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363064
• ISBN-10: 0822363062
• Artikelnr.: 45153903

Autorenporträt

David McDermott Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and the author of Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging and From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part I. Energy with Conscience
1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel  29
2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment  41
Part II. Ordinary Oil
3. The Myth of Inevitability  65
4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility  95
5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot  120
Conclusion  141
Notes  153
References  165
Index  183