CARBON DEMOCRACY : Political Power in the Age of Oil / Timothy Mitchell

By:

Mitchell, Timothy, 1955- [Author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn : Verso Books, 2023Description: 292 pages : 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781804292495

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DDC classification:

23 320.6 TIM

Summary: Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from oil production, and in the places that have the greatest demand for energy. Timothy Mitchell begins with the history of coal power to tell a radical new story about the rise of democracy. Coal was a source of energy so open to disruption that oligarchies in the West became vulnerable for the first time to mass demands for democracy. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the development of cheap and abund...

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Book	Perpustakaan MBIP Medini General Stacks	Non-Fiction book	320.6 TIM 2023 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00001320
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Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from oil production, and in the places that have the greatest demand for energy.

Timothy Mitchell begins with the history of coal power to tell a radical new story about the rise of democracy. Coal was a source of energy so open to disruption that oligarchies in the West became vulnerable for the first time to mass demands for democracy. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the development of cheap and abund...

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