{"product_id":"energy-and-ethics-isbn-9781119596998","title":"Energy and Ethics?","description":"This volume presents a much-needed rethinking and proposes a more nuanced, inclusive, and capacious approach to energy ethics that will help us grapple with some of the most pressing issues of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe contributors demonstrate how ethics emerge through people’s everyday thoughts and practices, whether they work in renewables, nuclear, or fossil fuels; whether they work in industry, policy, or advocacy; whether they produce, distribute, or consume energy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIt shows how to create an analytical space in which we can attend to people’s own experiences and evaluations without uncritically imposing judgements of how we would like the world to be\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBy attending to the broader political and economic contexts in which these everyday energy encounters take place, this volume draws attention to the plurality and complexity that characterises the multiple and overlapping ‘ethical worlds’ in which we, our interlocutors, and other beings participate\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the ethical constitution of energy dilemmas \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette M. High \u0026amp; Jessica M. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Projects of devotion: energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the Western United States \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMette M. High\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The solar good: energy ethics in poor markets \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJamie Cross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Orphaned wells, oil assets, and debt: the competing ethics of value creation and care withinpetrocapitalist projects of return \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaura Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Boom to bust, ashes to (coal) dust: the contested ethics of energy exchanges in a declining US coalmarket \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessica M. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The ordinary ethics of charcoal in northern Madagascar \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Walsh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur Mason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Fuel of fear and force: gasoline’s energetic power and its entanglement in composite ethics \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Penfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Greater goods: ethics, energy, and other-than-human speech \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCymene Howe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Energy ethics and ethical worlds \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHannah Appel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMette M. High\u003c\/b\u003e is a Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Focusing on natural resources such as metals and fossil fuels, her research explores how global economic processes intersect with intimate moral views. She conducts research in Mongolia and the United States, and her recent publications include \u003ci\u003eFear and Fortune: Spirit worlds and emerging economies in the Mongolian gold rush\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eExploring the anthropology of energy: Ethnography, energy and ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with J. Smith, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica M. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines. Focusing on the American West, her research explores how people, from technicians to engineers and executives, experience work in mining, oil and gas. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eMining coal and undermining gender: Rhythms of work and family in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e (2014); \u003ci\u003eExploring the anthropology of energy: Ethnography, energy and ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with M. High, 2017); and \u003ci\u003eEngaging the underground: An STS field in formation\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with A. Kinchy and R. Phadke, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnergy raises, if not demands, vital and vexing ethical questions. In what ways does energy contribute to or imperil the kinds of lives and societies that we desire for ourselves and our others? How does the production, distribution, use, and disposal of energy relate to what we consider to be right or good? Anthropologists have studied energy encounters for many decades. However, the frameworks that have become most dominant in the discipline have narrowed the ways in which scholars seek to understand these energy dilemmas. This volume presents a much-needed rethinking and proposes a more nuanced, inclusive, and capacious approach to energy ethics that will help us grapple with some of the most pressing issues of our time. The contributors demonstrate how ethics emerge through people’s everyday thoughts and practices, whether they work in renewables, nuclear, or fossil fuels; whether they work in industry, policy, or advocacy; whether they produce, distribute, or consume energy. It shows how to create an analytical space in which we can attend to people’s own experiences and evaluations without uncritically imposing judgements of how we would like the world to be. By attending to the broader political and economic contexts in which these everyday energy encounters take place, this volume draws attention to the plurality and complexity that characterises the multiple and overlapping ‘ethical worlds’ in which we, our interlocutors, and other beings participate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989133082853,"sku":"NP9781119596998","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119596998.jpg?v=1761782929","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/energy-and-ethics-isbn-9781119596998","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}