Shaun A Golding

Electric Mountains

Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Electric Mountains examines opposition to wind energy in an environmentally progressive region. It contextualizes opposition within regional culture and political economy and uses environmental sociology to illuminate wind energy’s contested role in transitioning North America’s electricity grid away from fossil fuels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781978820692
• ISBN-10: 1978820690
• Artikelnr.: 60370330

Autorenporträt

SHAUN A. GOLDING is an associate professor of sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations 
Preface 
1. Introduction 
2. Windy Ridgelines, Social Fault Lines 
3. For the Love of Mountains: The Green Politics of Place 
4. But What If…? Wind and the Discourse of Risk 
5. Following Power Lines: A Regional Political Economy of Renewables 
    Part I. The Money 
    Part II. The People 
6. Scripted in Chaos 
7. Why We Follow the Slow Transition Road Map 
8. Ecological Modernizations or Capitalists Treadmills? 
9. Energy and “Justice” in the Mountains 
10. Reimagining Energy 
Epilogue 
Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index