Energy and ethics?

Author(s)

• High, Mitte M.
• Smith, Jessica M.

Bibliographic Information

Energy and ethics?

edited by Mitte M. High and Jessica M. Smith

（Journal of the royal anthropological institute special issue book series, v.25, S1）

Wiley, 2019

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume presents a much-needed rethinking and proposes a more nuanced, inclusive, and capacious approach to energy ethics that will help us grapple with some of the most pressing issues of our time. The contributors demonstrate how ethics emerge through people's everyday thoughts and practices, whether they work in renewables, nuclear, or fossil fuels; whether they work in industry, policy, or advocacy; whether they produce, distribute, or consume energy It shows how to create an analytical space in which we can attend to people's own experiences and evaluations without uncritically imposing judgements of how we would like the world to be By attending to the broader political and economic contexts in which these everyday energy encounters take place, this volume draws attention to the plurality and complexity that characterises the multiple and overlapping 'ethical worlds' in which we, our interlocutors, and other beings participate

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Introduction: the ethical constitution of energy dilemmas Mette M. High & Jessica M. Smith 1 Projects of devotion: energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the Western United States Mette M. High 2 The solar good: energy ethics in poor markets Jamie Cross 3 Orphaned wells, oil assets, and debt: the competing ethics of value creation and care withinpetrocapitalist projects of return Caura Wood 4 Boom to bust, ashes to (coal) dust: the contested ethics of energy exchanges in a declining US coalmarket Jessica M. Smith 5 The ordinary ethics of charcoal in northern Madagascar Andrew Walsh 6 Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry Arthur Mason 7 Fuel of fear and force: gasoline's energetic power and its entanglement in composite ethics Amy Penfield 8 Greater goods: ethics, energy, and other-than-human speech Cymene Howe Conclusion: Energy ethics and ethical worlds Hannah Appel Index

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Details

• NCID: BC10230708
• ISBN:
  • 9781119596998
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 194 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : Power resources -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • FREE : Energy industries -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04739372