Entangling carbon lock-in: India’s coal constituency

Lecavalier, Emma; Harrington, Cameron

Abstract

This article investigates how energy security in the Anthropocene is entangled in diffuse ways with materiality. In particular we examine the social-material entanglement of humans and coal in India and how coal manifests itself differently across social life in the country. Focusing on a single material allows us to study how the Anthropocene creates, and is created by, particular appropriations of the material world. It offers a corrective to some Anthropocene literature that avoids discussing the complex, “everyday,” social impacts that fossil fuels have, particularly in the developing world. These intertwined impacts add to the complexity and difficulty in the process of decarbonizing societies, or in transitioning to a sustainable energy future.

Citation

Lecavalier, E., & Harrington, C. (2017). Entangling carbon lock-in: India’s coal constituency. Crime, Law and Social Change, 68(5), 529-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9701-7

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 22, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Jul 18, 2017
• Publication Date: Jul 18, 2017
• Deposit Date: Oct 2, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 18, 2018
• Journal: Crime, Law and Social Change
• Print ISSN: 0925-4994
• Electronic ISSN: 1573-0751
• Publisher: Springer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 529-546
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9701-7
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1375249