It is often said that oil is a curse that doomes the countries engaged in its prey, to wars, corruption and extreme inequality. “Carbon Democracy” tells a more complex history, arguing that no country can avoid the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It determines the political appearance of the Middle East, which depends on the income from oil production, and countries in which the demand for energy resources is the greatest.
Timothy Mitchell begins a story with coal, offering a completely new look at the emergence of democracy. Coal was such a “subversive” source of energy that the oligarchy in the West was first vulnerable to the requirements of democracy from the masses. But in the middle of the 20th century, obtaining cheap and abundant energy from oil, mainly the Middle East, allowed to weaken this vulnerability before the pressure of the masses. Thanks to the abundance of oil, for the first time in history, it became possible to reorganize political life around the management of econ …
Author
Mitchell Timothy
Editor
Ivanova M.A.
Translator
Kralechkin Dmitry
Publisher
The case, 2014
Genre
Policy
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