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发表于2024-11-26
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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 abundant energy from oil, most notably from the Middle East, offered a means to reduce this vulnerability to democratic pressures. The abundance of oil made it possible for the first time in history to reorganize political life around the management of something now called "the economy" and the promise of its infinite growth. The politics of the West became dependent on an undemocratic Middle East.
In the twenty-first century, the oil-based forms of modern democratic politics have become unsustainable. Foreign intervention and military rule are faltering in the Middle East, while governments everywhere appear incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to end the age of carbon democracy—the disappearance of cheap energy and the carbon-fuelled collapse of the ecological order.
In making the production of energy the central force shaping the democratic age, Carbon Democracy rethinks the history of energy, the politics of nature, the theory of democracy, and the place of the Middle East in our common world.
Timothy Mitchell teaches at Columbia University
顛覆瞭我的很多成見,比方美國外交,中東,甚至“經濟”作為一門學科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //剛開始看,有意思。。。
評分顛覆瞭我的很多成見,比方美國外交,中東,甚至“經濟”作為一門學科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //剛開始看,有意思。。。
評分顛覆瞭我的很多成見,比方美國外交,中東,甚至“經濟”作為一門學科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //剛開始看,有意思。。。
評分顛覆瞭我的很多成見,比方美國外交,中東,甚至“經濟”作為一門學科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //剛開始看,有意思。。。
評分顛覆瞭我的很多成見,比方美國外交,中東,甚至“經濟”作為一門學科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //剛開始看,有意思。。。
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil 《碳民主:石油时代的政权》 人们常说,石油是一个诅咒,石油产出国总是与战争、腐败和不平等脱不了关系。《碳民主》讲述了一个更加复杂的故事,它认为,没有任何国家能从我们对石油的集体依赖所造成的政治后果中抽身。...
評分Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil 《碳民主:石油时代的政权》 人们常说,石油是一个诅咒,石油产出国总是与战争、腐败和不平等脱不了关系。《碳民主》讲述了一个更加复杂的故事,它认为,没有任何国家能从我们对石油的集体依赖所造成的政治后果中抽身。...
評分Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil 《碳民主:石油时代的政权》 人们常说,石油是一个诅咒,石油产出国总是与战争、腐败和不平等脱不了关系。《碳民主》讲述了一个更加复杂的故事,它认为,没有任何国家能从我们对石油的集体依赖所造成的政治后果中抽身。...
評分Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil 《碳民主:石油时代的政权》 人们常说,石油是一个诅咒,石油产出国总是与战争、腐败和不平等脱不了关系。《碳民主》讲述了一个更加复杂的故事,它认为,没有任何国家能从我们对石油的集体依赖所造成的政治后果中抽身。...
評分Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil 《碳民主:石油时代的政权》 人们常说,石油是一个诅咒,石油产出国总是与战争、腐败和不平等脱不了关系。《碳民主》讲述了一个更加复杂的故事,它认为,没有任何国家能从我们对石油的集体依赖所造成的政治后果中抽身。...
Carbon Democracy pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024