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Highlights
- How workers and customers engage utility regulation to act on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and economic injustice.
- About the Author: Nikki Luke is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee.
- 264 Pages
- Technology, Power Resources
- Series Name: Urban and Industrial Environments
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Book Synopsis
How workers and customers engage utility regulation to act on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and economic injustice. Electric Life traces the intertwined history of Atlanta's racialized uneven development and growing electricity use to show how electricity infrastructure shapes everyday life. Nikki Luke looks at how quotidian relationships with the electric utility catalyze intersectional organizing for energy democracy. She also investigates the legal and material construction of the investor-owned utility as a regulated monopoly and the state public service commission that regulates it. Contemporary organizing for energy democracy questions how the utility and the systems that govern it need to change to ensure energy affordability, provide remedy and reparation for enduring environmental and energy injustice, and build a just and equitable energy transition from fossil fuels. Bridging urban, environmental, and labor studies, the author demonstrates how these demands to change the utility emerge from the tradition of civil rights, labor, and environmental organizing for fair treatment from the utility, affordable energy, protection from pollution, and good jobs.About the Author
Nikki Luke is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 264
Genre: Technology
Sub-Genre: Power Resources
Series Title: Urban and Industrial Environments
Publisher: MIT Press
Theme: Electrical
Format: Paperback
Author: Nikki Luke
Language: English
Street Date: March 31, 2026
TCIN: 1005738127
UPC: 9780262051972
Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-0174
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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