Power Shift
Keywords for a New Politics of Energy
$51.37
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2025
Summary
Power Shift traces recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming. Across the globe, the need to transition to renewables has become the guiding reality of our energy present and future, despite continuing resistance to change. But what does this moment of energy transition look like for those struggling to make it happen in a way that benefits every individual and all communities?
Featuring brief essays…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781959000495 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1959000497 |
| Author: | Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, David Nye |
| Publisher: | West Virginia University Press |
| Imprint: | West Virginia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Energy and Society |
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Critics Review
“We urgently need Power Shift if we are to find our way forward toward a decarbonized future.”
–David E. Nye, author of Seven Sublimes and Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies
Imre Szeman
Imre Szeman is director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability and professor of human geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of books such as On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy and Futures of the Sun.
Jennifer Wenzel is professor in the department of English and comparative literature and the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. Her books include The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature and Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anti-colonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond.
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