| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps, charts |
| Contents |
Introduction: the changing politics of global energy -- Triple wins? The rise and fall of biofuels and fracking -- Catalyzing local contention: the political economy drivers -- Biofuels in Kenya's Tana Delta -- Fracking in the Yukon -- Conclusions: political economies and resistance |
| Summary |
"This book explores how and why controversies over liquid biofuels (bioethanol and biodiesel) and hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") unfolded in surprisingly similar ways in the global North and South. In the early 2000s, the search was on for fuels that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, spur economic development in rural regions, and diversify national energy supplies. Biofuels and fracking took centre stage as promising commodities and technologies. But controversy quickly erupted. Global enthusiasm for these fuels, and the widespread projections for their production around the world, collided with local politics. Rural and remote places, such as coastal east Africa and Canada's Yukon territory, became hotbeds of contention in these new energy politics. Opponents of biofuels in Kenya and of fracking in the Yukon activated specific identities, embraced scale shifts across transnational networks, brokered relationships between disparate communities and interests, and engaged in contentious performances with symbolic resonance. To explain these convergent dynamics of contention and resistance, the book argues that the emergence of grievances and the mechanisms of mobilization that are used to resist new fuel technologies depend less on the type of energy developed than on intersecting elements of the political economy of energy--specifically finance, ownership, and trade relations. Taken together, the intersecting elements of the political economy of energy shape patterns of resistance in new energy frontiers"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 16, 2021) |
| Subject |
Biomass energy -- Political aspects
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Hydraulic fracturing -- Political aspects
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Biomass energy -- Public opinion
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Hydraulic fracturing -- Public opinion
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Biomass energy -- Economic aspects
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Hydraulic fracturing -- Economic aspects
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Political ecology.
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Biomass energy -- Economic aspects
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Political ecology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020030196 |
| ISBN |
9780197535608 |
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0197535607 |
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9780197535592 |
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0197535593 |
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9780197535615 |
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0197535615 |
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