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| DOI | 10.1017/S0010417524000069 |
| Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States | |
| Chatterjee, Elizabeth | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| ISSN | 0010-4175 |
| EISSN | 1475-2999 |
| 英文摘要 | From Iran and Mozambique to France's Gilets jaunes, consumer energy protests are ubiquitous today. Little historical scholarship has so far explored such fuel riots, the problematic moniker bestowed by contemporary policy scholars. This article argues for disaggregating the homogenous crowd of so-called rioters, instead analyzing why particular socioeconomic groups persistently take to the streets. To do this, it sketches an energy-centered approach to class with both structural and subjective axes. This analytic is applied to a comparative history of two of the best-documented energy protests of the last half-century. During the 1970s, independent truckers blocked American highways to protest the high price of motor fuel. A decade later, half a million North Indian farmers mobilized to demand cheaper and more reliable electricity. Half a world apart, the two movements shared key characteristics. They were the expression of specific class fractions whose material interests were conditioned by heavy dependence on state-mediated energy supplies. Awkwardly located between big capital and wage labor, both truckers and farmers owned stakes in the carbon-intensive means of production that left them exposed to volatility in energy quality and pricing. Both mobilized in reaction to perceived breaches of state-centered moral economies of energy which threatened this dependence, leveraging their power to interrupt supplies within the circulatory systems of fossil fuel society. Even as both movements failed in their own terms, their political resistance helped to lock in place consumer subsidies for cheap carbon-intensive energy. Such energy protests deserve a central role in our environmental histories of fossil fuel society. |
| 英文关键词 | fuel riots; energy; environmental history; protests; social movements; infrastructure; logistics; transportation; agriculture; climate change |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; History ; Sociology |
| WOS类目 | Anthropology ; History ; Sociology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001194711200001 |
| 来源期刊 | COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/300903 |
| 作者单位 | University of Chicago |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Chatterjee, Elizabeth. Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States[J],2024. |
| APA | Chatterjee, Elizabeth.(2024).Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States.COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY. |
| MLA | Chatterjee, Elizabeth."Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States".COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY (2024). |
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