{"product_id":"power-and-just-transitions-struggles-for-a-post-coal-future-in-an-appalachian-valley-paperback-softback-9780252089060","title":"Power and Just Transitions; Struggles for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252089060","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePower and Just Transitions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStruggles for a Post-Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Gaventa (Author), Gabe Schwartzman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252089060\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 3 maps; 7 charts\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.399 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\u003cdiv\u003e\"More than forty years after his pathbreaking book \u003ci\u003ePower and Powerlessness\u003c\/i\u003e was published, John Gaventa and his coauthor Gabe Schwartzman return to the Appalachian Valley to explore the question of what a post-coal future looks like in a world in transition. The result, \u003ci\u003ePower and Just Transitions\u003c\/i\u003e, is a hugely impressive, rich but accessible, engaged and rigorous study of the struggles over a just transition away from fossil fuels that will be of interest to a growing community of scholars and activists keen to ensure that collective responses to climate change do not further marginalize those who have already suffered so much in the name of 'development'. I wholeheartedly recommend this critically important book.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Peter Newell, author of \u003ci\u003ePower Shift: The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A tour de force! Essential analysis for all concerned about economic development, community organizing and environmental policies that move us towards truly just, post-coal futures in Appalachia and beyond.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Barbara Ellen Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eDigging \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublished in 1982, John Gaventa's award-winning \u003ci\u003ePower and Powerlessness \u003c\/i\u003eexamined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman update the story through coal's decline and into the present while focusing on how power relations and community mobilizing have changed and evolved during this era of transition. Their analysis tracks the impact on a place where a fossil fuel–based economy shaped political and social structures for over a century. As they show, new forms of power emerged while old ones remained, and both affected the popular struggle for a future that's both just and more inclusive.  Original and timely, \u003ci\u003ePower and Just Transitions\u003c\/i\u003e merges historical perspective with interviews and engagement to look at how coal's decline impacted power and resistance in an Appalachian community.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653199229208,"sku":"9780252089060","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/power-and-just-transitions-struggles-for-a-post-coal-future-in-an-appalachian-valley-paperback-softback-9780252089060","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}