Renewable Societies
Energy Transitions and Life After Fossil Fuels
Renewable Societies
Energy Transitions and Life After Fossil Fuels
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Description
What could a renewable society look like? Whose blueprint of a green future will prevail? Who will benefit most, and who will bear the costs? Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners and activists from across a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the profound social, cultural, and political transformations accompanying the global transition to renewable energy systems.
Drawing on insights from empirical case studies around the world, the book explores seven critical scenes of the renewable energy transition in the making: the Bank (financing and speculation), the Mine (extractions and resources), the Factory (building and generating), the Grid (connections and transmissions), the Home (reproduction and relations), the Commons (justice and agonisms) and the Dump (waste and reminders).
While renewable energy promises obvious environmental benefits, this collection examines the less evident social, economic, political, and cultural implications of a transition to renewables.
Table of Contents
PART I: THE BANK
1. Deep-sea speculations: The contradictions of climate finance in seabed mining: Kate Neville (University of Toronto), Marc Calabretta (UofT), Justin Alger (University of Sydney), Jessica Green (UofT Politics)
PART II: THE FACTORY
2. Renewable energy labour regimes: Dinga Sikwebu, (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa),
3. Built environment/infrasturcture: Albert Narath (University of California, Santa Cruz)
PART III: THE GRID
3. Electricity developmentalism: Elizabeth Chatterjee (University of Chicago)
4. Are grid-tied microgrids the future of a resilient energy system?: Hedda Ransan-Cooper (The Australian National University)
5. Off grid solar development in India: Ankit Kumar (University of Sheffield)
PART IV: THE MINE
6. Extraction without Extractivism: Katie Sandwell and Hamza Hamouchene (Transnational Institute)
7. The impacts and conflicts of mining for the energy and digital transitions: Mariana Walter (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
8. Tilting the verticality of geothermal energy: The making and masking of new renewable spatialities: Andreas Roos (Lund University) & Ethemcan Turhan (University of Groningen)
9. Actually-existing renewabilities within-and beyond-the energy transition: Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne)
PART V: THE HOME
10. Social reproduction, care and commoning–empirical cases from Africa: Vasna Ramasar (Lund University)
11. Title TBA: Deepti Chatti (University of California, San Diego)
PART VI: THE COMMONS:
12: “Democracy Permitted? Public Utilities Commissions and Contested Energy Futures in the US”: Kai Bosworth (Virginia Commonwealth University)
13. Financing a Post Fossil Fuel Society and the Technoeconomics of Transition: Who is Going to Pay?: Sean Sweeney (Cornell University)
14. Combustion Beyond Reason: Myles Lennon (Brown University)
PART VII: THE DUMP
Conclusion
Product details
| Published | Apr 15 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350549456 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 3 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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