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3 The Fear of Being “Left Behind in the Dust”
The Rise and Potential Fall of Coal in China
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Shellen X. Wu
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- 1 “The Largest and Most Important Renewable Energy Project in the World” 21
- 2 “Coal Will Be the Primary Fuel of the Future” 35
- 3 The Fear of Being “Left Behind in the Dust” 55
- 4 Frederick Tryon and the Decoupling of Energy and Economic Growth in the 1920s 71
- 5 The Colony and the World Energy Revolution 84
- 6 The Red Thread to Socialism 103
- 7 Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo and the Invention of Anticolonial Democratic Oil Conservation 124
- 8 Privatizing a Colonial Electricity Undertaking 144
- 9 Gender, Food, and Vernacular Energy in Moussa Travélé’s “Three Rapid People” 157
- 10 Uncertain Energy Epistemologies 169
- 11 Laura Nader’s Third-Wave Energy Anthropology 183
- 12 The Master Resource 202
- Conclusion 223
- Acknowledgments 229
- Notes 231
- Index 273
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- 1 “The Largest and Most Important Renewable Energy Project in the World” 21
- 2 “Coal Will Be the Primary Fuel of the Future” 35
- 3 The Fear of Being “Left Behind in the Dust” 55
- 4 Frederick Tryon and the Decoupling of Energy and Economic Growth in the 1920s 71
- 5 The Colony and the World Energy Revolution 84
- 6 The Red Thread to Socialism 103
- 7 Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo and the Invention of Anticolonial Democratic Oil Conservation 124
- 8 Privatizing a Colonial Electricity Undertaking 144
- 9 Gender, Food, and Vernacular Energy in Moussa Travélé’s “Three Rapid People” 157
- 10 Uncertain Energy Epistemologies 169
- 11 Laura Nader’s Third-Wave Energy Anthropology 183
- 12 The Master Resource 202
- Conclusion 223
- Acknowledgments 229
- Notes 231
- Index 273
