Power Shift

Energy transitions are fundamental to achieving a zero-carbon economy. This book provides a novel, interdisciplinary account of the politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system change. Using case studies from around the globe, it explores the historical, global, political and ecological features of energy transitions.

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Cover -- Half-title page -- Reviews -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Argument -- 1.2 The Approach -- 1.3 Why Energy? The Peculiar Politics of Energy -- 1.4 Continuity and Change in the Study of Energy -- 1.5 Energy as a Change in State -- 2 Theorising Energy Transitions -- 2.1 Sociotechnical Transitions -- 2.2 From Transition to Transformation -- 2.3 Political Economies of Transition -- 2.4 Globalising the Political Economies of Energy Transition

2.5 The International Relations of Energy -- 2.6 Historicising the Political Economy of Energy Transitions -- 2.7 Ecologising the Political Economy of Energy Transitions -- 3 Producing Energy Transitions -- 3.1 Historicising Energy Production -- 3.2 Political Economy of Energy Production -- 3.3 The Global Organisation of Incumbent Power -- 3.4 Discursive Support to Incumbents -- 3.5 Transitions within Business: The Business of Climate Change -- 3.6 Labour -- 3.7 The Shifting Governance of Energy Production -- 3.8 Ecologies of Energy Production -- 3.9 Production as If the Planet Mattered

4 Financing Energy …