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Author:   Shaun A. Golding
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781978820685

ISBN 10:   1978820682
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   16 July 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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The world's quickening energy transition is heralded by iconic changes to our landscapes and exciting new modes of transit, heating, and cooling. And yet society's shift away from climate-harming energy is far from the urgent transformation warranted by climate change predictions. Electric Mountains explores the dissonance between electricity transition and energy transformation through the story of a region's renewable energy policies and the popular backlash against them. Contextualizing narratives commonly dismissed as NIMBYism, Electric Mountains engages with the themes of rurality, risk, justice, and Ecological Modernization in predominantly white and ecologically progressive Northern New England. It encourages students and practitioners of Environmental Sociology to discern nuance across different regional political economies of energy and to recognize the imprints of energy hegemons, as well as our own biases and privileges, in our energy realities and energy transition roadmaps. -- ASA Environmental Newsletter The Real Problem With Michael Moore's New Film: Planet of the Humans, by Shaun Golding https: //www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/05/real-problem-michael-moores-new-film-planet-humans-- Common Dreams Well-written, incredibly informative, and sharply argued, Electric Mountains will be an important contribution to critical environmental scholarship on energy transitions. --Jesse Goldstein author of Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism

Well-written, incredibly informative, and sharply argued, Electric Mountains will be an important contribution to critical environmental scholarship on energy transitions. --Jesse Goldstein author of Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitali Electric Mountains is a timely and well researched book. Grounding an array of sociological thought about the environment and environmental behavior in rich ethnographic narrative, the book is both insightful and artfully written. Electric Mountains is a must read by anyone seeking to understand the social complexities surrounding wind energy. --Brent Z. Kaup College of William & Mary The world's quickening energy transition is heralded by iconic changes to our landscapes and exciting new modes of transit, heating, and cooling. And yet society's shift away from climate-harming energy is far from the urgent transformation warranted by climate change predictions. Electric Mountains explores the dissonance between electricity transition and energy transformation through the story of a region's renewable energy policies and the popular backlash against them. Contextualizing narratives commonly dismissed as NIMBYism, Electric Mountains engages with the themes of rurality, risk, justice, and Ecological Modernization in predominantly white and ecologically progressive Northern New England. It encourages students and practitioners of Environmental Sociology to discern nuance across different regional political economies of energy and to recognize the imprints of energy hegemons, as well as our own biases and privileges, in our energy realities and energy transition roadmaps. -- ASA Environmental Newsletter The Real Problem With Michael Moore's New Film: Planet of the Humans, by Shaun Golding https: //www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/05/real-problem-michael-moores-new-film-planet-humans-- Common Dreams

Well-written, incredibly informative, and sharply argued, Electric Mountains will be an important contribution to critical environmental scholarship on energy transitions. --Jesse Goldstein author of Planetary Improvement: Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism The Real Problem With Michael Moore's New Film: Planet of the Humans, by Shaun Golding https: //www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/05/real-problem-michael-moores-new-film-planet-humans-- Common Dreams

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SHAUN A. GOLDING is an associate professor of sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles.

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