TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daggett, Cara New
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1215/9781478090007
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006086
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135847783
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Public Policy/Environmental Policy
KW  - Nature
KW  - Environmental Conservation & Protection
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/49e27da2-6b1f-41cd-90f5-6ba786ed5bbe/9781478090007-web.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24047
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham, NC
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781478006329
TI  - The Birth of Energy : Fossil fuels, thermodynamics and the politics of work
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