Electric Mountains - Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition

Electric Mountains examines opposition to wind energy in an environmentally progressive region. It contextualizes opposition within regional culture and political economy and uses environmental sociology to illuminate wind energy’s contested role in transitioning North America’s electricity grid away from fossil fuels.

List of contents

List of Illustrations 

Preface 

1. Introduction 

2. Windy Ridgelines, Social Fault Lines 

3. For the Love of Mountains: The Green Politics of Place 

4. But What If...? Wind and the Discourse of Risk 

5. Following Power Lines: A Regional Political Economy of Renewables 

    Part I. The Money 

    Part II. The People 

6. Scripted in Chaos 

7. Why We Follow the Slow Transition Road Map 

8. Ecological Modernizations or Capitalists Treadmills? 

9. Energy and "Justice" in the Mountains 

10. Reimagining Energy 

Epilogue 

Acknowledgments 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index

About the author

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.

Summary

Examines how wind turbines have starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, the book casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New England’s ridgeline wind projects demarcate.

Product details

• Authors: Shaun A Golding, Shaun A. Golding
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781978820692
• ISBN: 978-1-978820-69-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Nature, Society, and Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education