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From the Bog to the Cloud : Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bresnihan, Patrick.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- The green digital transition is underway.But what does this transition look like when dictated by the energy and resource demands of monopoly tech?How has this situation come to be?And where is it being resisted?
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- From the Bog to the Cloud Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why are there so many data centres in Ireland?
- The political ecology of monopoly tech
- Development and dependency in the Irish postcolony
- Ideology of improvement
- The land question
- Dependency and the Irish semi-periphery
- Contesting eco-modernity from a green tech laboratory
- Structure of the book
- 1 Energetic Mediation and Imperial Geographies
- Imperial innovation
- Technology, improvement, and colonial modernity
- Marconi in É ireann: imperial wireless
- Wireless improvement
- Competing narratives
- Conclusion
- 2 Bog Modernity and Energy Decolonisation
- Peat-fired progress
- From colonial improvement to national development
- Economic compulsion and the challenge of sovereign development
- Rural modernity and its discontents
- Postcolonial modernity to post-developmental ambitions
- Conclusion: The durability of modern progress
- 3 Data Centre Land
- A postcolonial ecological regime
- Neoliberalism with Irish characteristics
- Ireland's postcolonial ecological regime
- Intel in Ireland and multinational tech infrastructure
- Infrastructural under-development and amplifying contradictions
- 4 Atmosphere Meets Cloud
- Wind-blown clouds
- Resource regimes of wind and data
- A laboratory of clouds and wind
- Wind extractivism at the Irish frontier
- Energy park as future
- Conclusion: Tech, eco-modernity, and the unjust transition
- 5 The Value of a Bog
- Commercialising the carbon cycle (through technoscience)
- Who cares about the bogs?
- University technoscience and the postcolonial ecological regime
- Techno-solutionism and monopoly tech's field laboratory
- Governing for peatland carbon
- 6 Land, Extractivism, and Anti-Imperialist Environmentalism
- Fighting extractivism
- Mining Ireland
- The limits of extractivism
- Anti-imperialist environmental politics
- From the plough to the stars
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4195-2
- 1-5292-4197-9
- OCLC:
- 1541775215
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