Timothy Mitchell teaches at Columbia University
发表于2024-12-25
Carbon Democracy 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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。...
评分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。...
评分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。...
评分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。...
评分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。...
图书标签: 历史 能源 石油 民主 政治 中东 美国 跨国史
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.
一本阐述化石能源和政治(劳工运动、地缘政治)间关系的书。Carbon Democracy有两个意思。一是在19世纪末期,由于欧洲国家对于煤矿的高度依赖和煤矿生产的特性,煤矿工人的斗争带来了整个mass democracy在欧洲甚至世界范围内的兴起。而二战后,欧美国家调整能源结构,由殖民主义的遗绪继续控制中东,将能源重心转移到石油上来。石油生产、运输的分散形态,再加上围绕石油建立起来的消费主义社会、国家经济发展、能源安全等机构和话语实体,石油能源成为资本主义国家管束操控民主的基础性物质。此外,作者还揭破McJihad的欧洲/中东二元对立世界观,指出中东宗教保守势力是欧美刻意扶持以维持石油供应,但今日的冲突是其试图摆脱控制的结果,最后得出结论,全球资本的运行,需要建立在其他者的存在基础上
评分作者的论点其实很有意思,只是因为我自己缺乏中东地区的历史知识,所以不能从这本书中得到更多乐趣。
评分颠覆了我的很多成见,比方美国外交,中东,甚至“经济”作为一门学科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //刚开始看,有意思。。。
评分颠覆了我的很多成见,比方美国外交,中东,甚至“经济”作为一门学科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //刚开始看,有意思。。。
评分颠覆了我的很多成见,比方美国外交,中东,甚至“经济”作为一门学科。start to think the movie Matrix is probably more non-fiction than fiction... :-O //刚开始看,有意思。。。
Carbon Democracy 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书