Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Timothy Mitchell, 2011)

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Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (London: Verso, 2011)
Bibliographic reference

Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (London: Verso, 2011)

Abstract

Carbon Democracy is an inquiry into the relations between fossil fuels and political power. Timothy Mitchell analyses energy systems as political machineries that need to be consider in histories of democracy. To do so, he follows the connections and conversion that were engineered to extract, produce and distribute coal and oil, drawing together materialities, politics, and ideas.