The Renewable Normal
$57.78
- Paperback
146 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2026
Summary
The Renewable Normal confronts the aesthetic, affective, and political dimensions of the transition to renewable energy. Written by the After Oil Collective, the book examines how renewable energy is being marshaled to sustain existing systems of inequality and exploitation under a banner of techno-optimism and green growth. It introduces the concept of the “renewable normal” to describe a regime of energy transition that promises transformation but delivers continuity, repackaging f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781496249333 |
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| ISBN-10: | 149624933X |
| Author: | After Oil Collective, Caleb Wellum, Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Graeme Macdonald, Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, Mark Simpson |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Imprint: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 146 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Provocations |
Critics Review
“The energy transition is now inevitable, but the opportunities it offers for social justice are not. Exploding the myth that the transformation is merely technical and attending instead to its uncertainties, this stimulating book opens a radical path to the future.“—Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy and The Alibi of Capital
“From its brilliant Beckettian beginning, through its acute analysis of the ‘fuckedness’ of our current transition, all the way to the rousing call to arms against normalized eco-capitalism, this book is a compulsively readable invitation to stop thinking about energy transition as a technical process, and to reimagine it as collective political revolt.“—Laleh Khalili, author of Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy
After Oil Collective
After Oil Collective is a composite and collaborative assemblage, fluid in membership, that interrogates the social and cultural politics of energy use in the context of climate change and energy transition.
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