Carbon Democracy

Political Power in the Age of Oil

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Beschreibung

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.<br><br>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.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781804292495

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

206 x 139 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Verso Books