Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy - Brossura

Russ, Daniela

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ISBN 10: 1804298972 ISBN 13: 9781804298978

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2026

Riassunto

A history of the energy economy from the perspective of critical theory

Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that “Energy” is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature forged in capitalist industrialisation. The concept of energy mediates the appropriation of diverse natural forces - water, steam, coal, electricity – altering the way these forces would naturally behave to perform work in production. From the valuation of coal and crafting of the current to the formalization of the substitution of energy commodities, it asks how engineers, scientists and economists achieved the production and circulation of nature’s work against social and natural resistance. In so doing, they undermined the very purpose of the energy economy - to emancipate humanity from nature. Can there be a human reconciliation with nature’s resistance for our time?

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Informazioni sull'autore

Daniela Russ is a historical sociologist based at the Global and European Studies Institute of the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research explores the history of the energy economy in a global perspective, the conflicts around the decarbonization of the electric grid, and the theory and practice of Soviet energy planning. Her work has been published by outlets such as Contemporary European History, Historical Materialism, and Stanford University Press.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1804298972
• ISBN 13: 9781804298978
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
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