{"product_id":"energy-without-conscience-9780822363064","title":"Energy without Conscience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as \"ordinary\" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hughes has contributed greatly to an understanding of how climate change is viewed in locations outside of the modern Western world.” -- Sandra Moore * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEnergy without Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful take on how climate change complicity can exist without a countrywide collective conscience of wrongdoing.\" -- Trey Murphy * Geographical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hughes offers us a rich and important ethnographic account of Trinidad that marks the Caribbean nation not only as the site of Christopher Columbus’ third exploration to the Americas, but also as the world’s first petro- extractive geography. . . . \u003ci\u003eEnergy Without Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and urgent book, one that furthers an understanding of global interconnectedness, not as a neoliberal project of unity, but through a web of danger, unequal outcomes, and a matrix of complicity.\" -- Macarena Gomez-Barris * Journal of Latin American Geography *\u003cbr\u003e“Overall, Hughes’s \u003ci\u003eEnergy Without Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a deeply historicized description of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil economy. Most importantly, he describes the potentiality of the past to have led to different presents and inspires us to consider different futures…. [The book] raises important questions about the ethical considerations and responsibilities of doing research in a world facing climate catastrophe. Owing to the methodical issues it covers, it will be of particular interest to anyone planning and conducting research in the broad fields of energy humanities, the anthropology of climate change, and extractive industries.” -- Kari Dahlgren * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Energy \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e Conscience\u003cbr\u003e 1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment  41\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Ordinary Oil\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Myth of Inevitability  65\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility  95\u003cbr\u003e 5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot  120\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  141\u003cbr\u003e Notes  153\u003cbr\u003e References  165\u003cbr\u003e Index  183","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406100472151,"sku":"9780822363064","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363064.jpg?v=1730494528","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/energy-without-conscience-9780822363064","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}