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The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

ISBN: 1478006323 ;ISBN: 9781478006329 ;ISBN: 1478005017 ;ISBN: 9781478005018 ;ISBN: 9781478005346 ;ISBN: 1478005343 ;EISBN: 9781478090007 ;EISBN: 1478090006 ;EISBN: 9781478005346 ;EISBN: 1478005343 ;DOI: 10.1215/9781478005346 ;OCLC: 1089780479 ;LCCallNum: HD9502

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Title:
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
Author: Daggett, Cara New
Subjects: Book Industry Communication ; Conservation of the environment ; Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning ; Energy consumption ; Energy consumption-Environmental aspects ; Energy consumption-History ; Energy industries ; Energy policy ; Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Environmental Policy ; NATURE ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Power resources ; Power resources-Economic aspects-History ; Power resources-History ; Power resources-Political aspects-History ; Public Policy ; The environment
Description: 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.
Related Titles: Elements
Publisher: Durham: Duke University Press
Creation Date: 2019
Format: 280
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 1478006323
ISBN: 9781478006329
ISBN: 1478005017
ISBN: 9781478005018
ISBN: 9781478005346
ISBN: 1478005343
EISBN: 9781478090007
EISBN: 1478090006
EISBN: 9781478005346
EISBN: 1478005343
DOI: 10.1215/9781478005346
OCLC: 1089780479
LCCallNum: HD9502
Source: DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
JSTOR eBooks: Open Access

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The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

ISBN: 1478006323 ;ISBN: 9781478006329 ;ISBN: 1478005017 ;ISBN: 9781478005018 ;ISBN: 9781478005346 ;ISBN: 1478005343 ;EISBN: 9781478090007 ;EISBN: 1478090006 ;EISBN: 9781478005346 ;EISBN: 1478005343 ;DOI: 10.1215/9781478005346 ;OCLC: 1089780479 ;LCCallNum: HD9502

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