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- Title
Electric Conservatism: The Rise of North Carolina's Conservative Power Politics.
- Authors
HARRISON, CONOR M.
- Abstract
This paper examines cases in which control over the spaces of electricity provision have intersected with attempts to produce spaces of social and cultural conservatism. Drawing on a range of archival documents, the paper traces these developments using the concepts of energopower and the state mode of production, first examining historical conflicts over rural electrification, socialism, and civil rights, and later contemporary concerns over renewable energy and questions of gender. Rather than simply assessing a shifting modality of state power, this paper points to the ways in which debates over state intervention in electricity provision become interrelated with broader social and cultural questions in the realms of political economy and identity. It concludes with some thoughts about contemporary energy geographies.
- Subjects
CONSERVATISM; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; SOCIALISM; RURAL electrification; NORTH Carolina state politics &; government
- Publication
Southeastern Geographer, 2017, Vol 57, Issue 4, p332
- ISSN
0038-366X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sgo.2017.0031