Power shift : keywords for a new politics of energy / edited by Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel ; foreword by David E. Nye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szeman, Imre, 1968- editor.

Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969- editor.

Series:

Energy and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy policy.

Renewable energy sources--Government policy.

Renewable energy sources.

Climate change mitigation--Government policy.

Climate change mitigation.

Climatic changes.

climate change.

Physical Description:

xviii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Keywords for a new politics of energy

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"A collection of brief essays on key terms that explore the urgent, complex politics of energy today, highlighting real-world struggles and offering diverse perspectives on the social, political, and cultural dimensions of transitioning to a sustainable future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / David E. Nye

How to use this book

Introduction / Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel

2040 : what genre will the future be? / Philomena Polefrone

Abandoned : who is tending to the present? / Liz Harmer

Action : what becomes possible when climate action fails? / Stephen Collis

Africa : energy for whom and at what cost? / Erin Dean and Kristin D. Phillips

Air conditioning : has air conditioning become a technology of citizenship? / Anushree Gupta, Aalok Khandekar

Airplane : why might we still need to fly? / Parke Wilde

Alberta : how many nuclear bombs does it take to develop an oil field? / Jeremy J. Schmidt

Animals : how do animals organize? / Jaimey Hamilton Faris

Art : how are art and energy related? / Carolyn Fornoff

Autonomy : why do we want energy autonomy? / Darin Barney

Bankrupt : is bankruptcy the crisis we need? / Caleb Wellum

Battery : can batteries foster a radically just energy transition? / Isaac Thornley

Behavior : why do appeals to values usually fail to change behavior? / Stéphane La Branche

Black : what are the Black politics of energy? / Walter Gordon

Blockade : why are blockades an essential form of climate action? / Joshua Clover, Deedee Chao, and Emily Rich

Carbon management : is carbon management a moral imperative or a moral hazard? / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Civil disobedience : what rules must be broken to build a better world? / Alicia Massie

Class : why is climate change a class issue? / Valerie Uher

Clean : what does clean energy really mean? / Gökçe Günel

Commons : what forms of governance could solve the tragedy of the commons? / Alfonso Giuliani

Communication : what are effective strategies for climate communication? / Andrew Revkin

Community : is it still possible to trust other people? / Darren Fleet

Coronavirus : what does the coronavirus reveal about the politics of climate crisis? / Helen Petrovsky

Corporation : will an energy transition help fossil fuel companies? / Cameron Hu

Cuba: what can Cuba teach us about climate action? / Andrew Pendakis

Cycling: is cycling a solution? / Stacey Balkan

Decolonization: what can OPEC teach us about the link between energy and decolonization? / Sanaz Sohrabi

Degrowth : is degrowth inevitable? / Dominic Boyer

Democracy: to save the planet, do we need more democracy, or less? / Robert Danisch

Design : what does design make possible? / Keller Easterling

Development : can development be green? / Siddharth Sareen

Digital : how does the digital reshape the material realm? / Shane Denson

Documentary : why is uncertainty useful? / Thomas Pringle

Economy : is economic expertise important? / Kylie Benton-Connell

Education : how should energy educators respond to youth climate activism? / Carrie Karsgaard

Electricity : how does electricity organize society? / Daniela Russ

Evidence : how is climate evidence used? / James Wilt

Expert : what counts as effective climate expertise? / Shane Gunster

Extinction : is there a relation between energy and extinction? / Ashley Dawson

Family : what is the environmental future of the family? / Eva-Lynn Jagoe

Farm : whose muscles power our food system? / Emily Pawley

Finance : can we create an economy based on care? / Max Haiven

Fire/bushfire : what can we learn from fire? / Meg Samuelson

Gaslighting : how has gaslighting circumscribed our environmental imagination? / Grace Franklin

Gender : why is gender important to energy transition? / Petra Tschakert

Geoengineering : is geoengineering inevitable? / Drew Pendergrass

Globalization : how does energy matter to globaliztation? / Tanner Mirrlees

Green New Deal : will the Green New Deal save us from extinction? / Todd Dufresne

Greta : why is intersectional agility Greta Thunberg's rhetorical superpower? / Sheen Wilson

Habit : what kinds of friction can disrupt the status quo? / Rhys Williams

India : can there be a just transition in India? / Swaralipi Nandi

Indigenous : how are Indigenous and extraction related? / Deena Rhyms

Indigenous activism : what is the power of radical care? / Amber Hickey

Industrial revolution : what does a focus on jobs mean for energy transition? / Cara Daggett

IPCC : what can the IPCC tell us about the relationship between knowledge and action? / Marcela da Silveira Feital and Jessica O'Reilly

Japan : why do fears of energy scarcity obstruct energy transition? / Hiroki Shin

Justice : what kind of justice is energy justice? / Pauline Destrée and Sarah O'Brien

Keep it in the ground : how can we build momentum to keep fossil fuels in the ground? / Angela Carter

Law : how can we change the law to address the climate crisis? / Michael B. Gerrard

Lifestyle : are lifestyle changes a waste of time? / Mark Simpson

Local : how do local climate politics work best? / Brian Cozen and Danielle Endres

Mining : why are the ways that we imaging mining important? / Gianfranco Selgas

Music : how are listening and energy related? / Sherry Lee and Emily MacCallum

Nationalism : what is the impact of transition on nationalism? / Zeynep Oguz

Natural gas : can natural gas be made visible, or viable? / John Szabo

Neoextractivism : what comes after neoextractivism? / Donald V. Kingsbury

Net zero : do we really want to live in a net-zero world? / Mijin Cha

Nonlinear : can nonlinear imaginative practices help us survive nonlinear catastrophes? / Katy Didden

Normal : what will be normal after fossil fuels? / Stephanie LeMenager

North Dakota : how does oil extraction reshape space and time? / Kyle Conway

Online : when we are online, what lines are we on? / Anne Pasek

Organize : can the master's tools dismantle the master's house? / Zainab Ashraf, Rachel Krueger, Guy Brodsky, Lesley Johnston, and Joy Hutchinson

Paris Agreement : does the Paris Agreement still matter? / Amy Janzwood

Permafrost : what do you do when the ground starts to melt beneath your feet? / Brigt Dale

Pipeline : why is opposition to pipelines important? / Kai Bosworth

Planet : what happens to politics on an increasingly unlivable planet? / Leah Aronowsky

Populism : what can energy politics learn from populism? / Rodrigo Nunes

Protest : why is protection more important than protest in Indigenous struggles? / Kimberly Skye Richards

Renewable : what do renewables renew? / Marianna Dudley

Resource : can waste serve as a resource for energy transition? / Kesha Fevrier and Anna Zalik

Retrofit : what does it mean to breathe life into buildings? / Fallon Samuels Aidoo and Daniel A. Barber

Sabotage : can sabotage ever be more than a romantic gesture? / Ted Hamilton

Scale : what if scale were about equity rather than magnitude? / Cymene Howe

Scales : what can the human voice tell us about the scale of climate change? / Lisa Moore

Scenario planning : is the future a waste of time? / Josefin Wangel

Science : do scientists believe that science matters? / Adam Sobel

Settler colonialism : how can modern energy systems be Indigenized? / Sākihitowin Awāsis

Shipping : what would actual free shipping look like? / Christiaan de Beukelaer

Solar farm : can solar farms foster energy justice, instead of obstructing it? / Dustin Mulvaney

Solidarity : how can solidarity catalyze energy democracy? / Ana Isabel Baptista

Sport : can sport be untangled from oil? / Graeme MacDonald

Storytelling : what can storytelling really do? / Misty Matthews-Roper

Sustainability : does sustainability's popularity indicate the failure of environmentalism? / Stephanie Foote

Trans- : what is trans- about transition? / Emerson Cram

Transitions : if transition is inevitable, will it be just? / Matthew S. Henry

Treaty : how can treaties help states transition away from fossil fuels? / Mohamed Adow, Rebecca Byrnes, Carlos Larrea, and Bhushan Tuladhar

Vegan : what does transition look like on your plate? / Allisa Ali and Jordan B. Kinder

Waste : what is at stake in using waster for energy? / Aarti Latkar and Aalok Khandekar

Water : how can microbe metabolism foster sustainable infrastructures? / Melody Jue

Wind : what color is the wind? / David McDermott Hughes

Youth : why is youth culture indispensable to energy transition? / Derek Gladwin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781959000518

1959000519

9781959000495

1959000497

OCLC:

1456588434