The birth of energy :
fossil fuels, thermodynamics, and the politics of work /
Cara New Daggett.

Description

Main Author

Daggett, Cara New, 1980-

Related Names

Duke University Press

Language(s)

English

Published

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Subjects

Power resources > Power resources / Political aspects.
Power resources > Power resources / Economic aspects.
Power resources.
Energy policy.
Energy industries.
Energy consumption > Energy consumption / Environmental aspects.
Energy consumption.
Energy industries.
Energy policy.
Energy consumption > Energy consumption / Environmental aspects.
Power resources > Power resources / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 / History.
Energy consumption > Energy consumption / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043129 / History.
Power resources > Power resources / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 / Political aspects > Power resources / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 / Political aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005651 / History.
Power resources > Power resources / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 / Economic aspects > Power resources / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105992 / Economic aspects / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005484 / History.
History.

Summary

"In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work--most notably, the veneration of waged work--will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled"---- Provided by publisher.

Physical Description

x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN

1478006323
9781478006329
1478005017
9781478005018

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