Timothy Mitchell

Carbon Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Political Power in the Age of Oil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development 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 the central object of which-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-fuelled collapse of the ecological order.

For the updated edition of this classic title, Timothy Mitchell has written a new preface, reassessing its arguments in the light of recent political events.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781683934
• Artikelnr.: 41070876

Autorenporträt

Timothy Mitchell teaches at Columbia University. His books include Colonising Egypt, Rule of Experts, and Carbon Democracy.