Energy and ethics? / edited by Mette M. High and Jessica M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

High, Mette M., editor.

Smith, Jessica M., editor.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Series ; volume 25, S1 2019

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power resources--Moral and ethical aspects.

Power resources.

Energy industries--Moral and ethical aspects.

Energy industries.

Physical Description:

194 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction : the ethical constitution of energy dilemmas / Mette M. High & Jessica M. Smith

Projects of devotion : energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the western United States / Mette M. High

The solar good : energy ethics in poor markets / Jamie Cross

Orphaned wells, oil assets, and debt : the competing ethics of value creation and care within petrocapitalist projects of return / Caura Wood

Boom to bust, ashes to (coal) dust : the contested ethics of energy exchanges in a declining US coal market / Jessica M. Smith

The ordinary ethics of charcoal in northern Madagascar / Andrew Walsh

Consulting virtue : from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry / Arthur Mason

Fuel of fear and force : gasoline's energetic power and its entanglement in composite ethics / Amy Penfield

Greater goods : ethics, energy, and other-than-human speech / Cymene Howe

Conclusion : energy ethics and ethical worlds / Hannah Appel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781119596998

1119596998

OCLC:

1082301202

Publisher Number:

99981102467