The Energy Permacrisis

How Fossil Capitalism Produces System Failures and New Energy Poverty
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-52805-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies

The Energy Permacrisis investigates a series of increasingly frequent energy crises over the last 15 years – amid rapid changes in climate, energy resources, finance and politics. It employs a case study approach to highlight the rise of energy crises in middle to high-income societies that have long enjoyed access to electricity and modern transportation.

Written against the backdrop of the pandemic crash and 2022 energy inflation, Sandy Smith-Nonini provides a timely and critical analysis of how fossil fuel shocks are reshaping the political economy. Drawing on her ethnographic research, the author examines how oil dependency and trans-border kleptocracy shaped Greece’s debt crisis and Puerto Rico’s 2017 grid collapse while spurring social resistance. Smith-Nonini pulls together data showing the pivotal impacts of soaring gasoline prices and oil speculators in the 2008 financial crisis. She explores the under-reported role of monopoly traders in the 2021 Texas blackout and global impacts and lessons from the 2022 crisis. Three chapters analyze hydrocarbon aspects of the Ukraine, Gaza and Iran wars. Overall, the book highlights how fossil dependency threatens family livelihoods, health, vital services and economies, and points to policy solutions for a humane climate/energy transition.

Written in a journalistic style by a critical political anthropologist, The Energy Permacrisis will be of great interest to a wide range of readers including students and scholars of energy and climate change, political ecology, environmental studies, policymakers and advocates.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith Nonini, Sandy

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Energie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Technologien für Fossile Energieträger
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Days of Miracles and Plunder Part I: Petro-Financialization (2007-2015) 2. Car Crash: Oil Price, Automobility and the 2008 Financial Crisis 3. Gaslighting: The Financialized Fragility of Shale Gas (and Oil) Part II: Energetic Kleptocracy (2011-2019) 4. Energy “Theft” as Resistance: Metabolic Disorders of the Greek Debt Crisis 5. Disempowered: Tracking the Fossil Debt behind Puerto Rico’s Long Blackout Part III: Post-pandemic Energy Crises (2020 -2025) 6. When Texas Freezes Over: Legacies of Deregulation and Un-Natural Gas 7. Europe’s Energy Permacrisis – 2022 and its Sequelae 8. Short Circuit: LNG, Circular Debt and the Post-Pandemic Polycrisis  Part IV: Energy Weapon (2022 -2026) 9. Carbon Sabotage: Fossil (In)Tensions behind Russia’s War in Ukraine 10. Unholy Land: Gaza’s Forbidden Gas and Metabolic Siege 11. The Big One: War in Iran Crimps the Global Fuel Line Anti-Conclusion 12. To Fix Climate, We Have to Fix Energy

Über Autor(innen)

Sandy Smith-Nonini is an affiliated Researcher and former Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, where she taught for 18 years. She is a recipient of the Peter K. New Prize for applied anthropology and co-founded CommunEcos, an environmental education non-profit.