Energy without Conscience – Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity
Autor David Mcdermott Hughesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822362982
ISBN-10: 0822362988
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 168 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822362988
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 168 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Cuprins
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
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
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it.