{"product_id":"carbon-societies-the-social-logic-of-fossil-fuels-paperback-softback-9781509557097","title":"Carbon Societies; The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509557097","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCarbon Societies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Social Logic of Fossil Fuels\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Wagner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509557097, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 15 x 2.5 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Peter Wagner, whose talent and skills in addressing the complex balance between long-term processes and the choices that actors make have already contributed so much to our understanding of modernity, now sets his lenses to focus on the planetary climate crisis. In \u003ci\u003eCarbon Societies\u003c\/i\u003e, he offers a fresh analytical perspective, an original look at how modern societies have conceived of the use of natural resources, and in doing so opens new windows to look at the future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElisa P. Reis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Over the years, Peter Wagner has established a reputation as a leading historical sociologist and theorist of modernity. Here Wagner tackles head-on the often-posed question of why we have done nothing serious about the climate crisis during the past 50 years. He offers a comprehensive and persuasive set of explanations, grounded in a wide-ranging and brilliant historical analysis. This should be one of the definitive books of the decade.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Outhwaite, Newcastle University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wagner's new publication should definitely be read by everyone who deals with the climate crisis.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoziopolis\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"an important and original contribution to the growing debate on the entanglement of societies and climate change.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJan Gilles, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCarbon Societies\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious work of historical sociology that attempts to explain the social forces that led to the fossil-fuel driven climate crisis that now confronts humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmen J. Giunta\u003ci\u003e , Bulletin for the History of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChemistry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Wagner offers a timely critical assessment of the key social transformations set in motion by a largescale exploitation of fossil fuels.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Social\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"built on a unique research experience that combines elements of historical sociology, political philosophy and social theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Sociology Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of fossil fuels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopulation growth, desire for freedom from want and profit-seeking all played major roles in shaping human history, but there has been no inevitable drive towards heating up the atmosphere in the pursuit of social objectives. To sustain a growing population, more natural resources are required, but their use does not need to generate climate change. No logic of modernity links freedom with a kind of material abundance that requires the burning of fossil fuels. No logic of capital necessarily ties the search for profit to the extraction of fossil resources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the critical junctures in human history when resource regimes changed, this book identifies the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels and the power hierarchies that shaped the decisions to use them. Wagner argues that the key choices that led to the climate emergency were made relatively recently, during the second half of the 20th century: they are close enough in time for us to undo the prevailing social logic of fossil fuels.  By redefining the key problems that humankind is facing and reshaping the existing mechanisms of power, we can take the decisive action needed to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I - Setting the agenda: biophysical resources and societal self-understandings\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Climate change, modernity, and capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II - An alternative historical sociology of modernity and capitalism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Logics of history\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The advanced organic economy of \"\"early modernity\"\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Vertical frontiers and the Great Divergence\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Fordism and the path towards the Great Acceleration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III - The social logic of fossil fuels: climate change and the politics of the Great Acceleration\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Capitalism, socialism, and democracy: the politics of material well-being\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Why fossil fuels? Alternatives of \"\"development\"\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Enabling and constraining knowledge: frontiers, limits, boundaries\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Problem displacement: the social logic of fossil fuels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV - The future social logic of fossil fuels\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Other endings: reviewing the logics of expansion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: What is to be done?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460684902680,"sku":"9781509557097","price":17.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509557097.jpg?v=1785458181","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/carbon-societies-the-social-logic-of-fossil-fuels-paperback-softback-9781509557097","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}