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Climate Crisis, Energy Violence
Mapping Fossil Energy's Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future
- 1st Edition - August 20, 2024
- Authors: Mary Finley-Brook, Stephen Metts
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 5 0 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 5 0 2 - 4
Climate Crisis, Energy Violence: Mapping Fossil Energy’s Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future communicates the breadth and scope of fossil fuel infrastructure and its global i… Read more
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Request a sales quoteClimate Crisis, Energy Violence: Mapping Fossil Energy’s Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future communicates the breadth and scope of fossil fuel infrastructure and its global impact. Comparative research coupled with data and maps accentuates the spatial, temporal, and physical forms of energy violence. Over 25 international case studies track the world’s three primary fossil fuels—first coal, followed by oil, then gas—revealing patterns of loss and damage, as well as industrial tactics of climate delay and deception used to prolong fossil fuel harms. Through analyses of hotspots, sacrifice zones, fast vs slow violence, death prints and fuel life cycles, immediate ecological damage as well as long-term climate impacts are revealed, tied directly to fossil fuel interests. In detailing the broad scope of damage from energy extraction systems, this book provides a compelling argument to move past fossil fuels, directly confronting the climate crisis through energy justice alliances.
- Examines fossil fuel infrastructure across more than 25 unique global research sites
- Analyzes energy violence in a theoretical yet accessible framework grounded in ecology, ethics, and human rights
- Explores collective action and energy justice alliances to move past the destructive pattern of fossil fuels
Sustainability and environmental professionals, researchers, policy makers, governments, development agencies, community organizers, and climate and environmental activists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction: Manufacturing ignorance
- Why study energy violence?
- Decolonizing energy
- Climate crisis
- Methane madness
- Manufacturing ignorance
- Climate anxiety
- Hyper greenwash
- Extreme energy hazardscapes
- Mapping power
- Worldmaking
- This book's objectives
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 1. Research methods
- Space and power
- Energy is spatial
- Spatializing infrastructure
- Time matters
- Environmental injustice
- Hotspots and blindspots
- Decision-making power
- Deathprint
- Sacrifice zones
- Embodied energy violence
- Energy imaginaries
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 2. Coal blooded
- Coal's promise … and peril
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 3. Black lung
- Untold narratives
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 4. King Coal's ashes
- Is King Coal finally dethroned?
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 5. Drilled
- Oil's promise … and peril
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 6. Crude
- Geographies of neglect
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 7. Rigged
- Power, privilege, and prejudice
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 8. Methane madness
- Fossil gas' promise … and peril
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 9. Blast zone
- Gaseous geographies
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative cases
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 10. “Freedom” molecules
- LNG's promise … and peril
- Energy violence
- Spatial distribution
- Temporal analysis
- Illustrative examples
- Spatial and temporal synopsis
- Summary
- Vocabulary
- Conclusion: Mapping fossil energy's deadly grasp
- Acronyms
- Praxis
- Glossary
- Index
- No. of pages: 568
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 20, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128195017
- eBook ISBN: 9780128195024
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Mary Finley-Brook
Mary Finley-Brook is an Associate Professor of Geography, and Global Studies at the University of Richmond, in Virginia, USA. She has decades of experience conducting participatory action research and collaborates regularly with community-based organizations and frontline populations to advance climate justice in energy sector transformation.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies, and Global Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USASM
Stephen Metts
Stephen Metts is a GIS Analyst, Instructor, and Scholar based in New York City, USA. His research and practice provides spatial analysis with specialities in energy infrastructure, environmental justice, and community impacts. As Part-Time Associate Teaching Professor at The New School, NYC, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses featuring Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping of global and regional issues related to land use, climate change, human rights, and migration.
Affiliations and expertise
GIS Analyst, Instructor, and Scholar based in New York City, USARead Climate Crisis, Energy Violence on ScienceDirect