Critical Social Thought 249HE - Topics in Critical Social Thought: 'History of Energy'
History of Energy
Spring
2023
01
4.00
Desmond Fitz-Gibbon
TTH 01:45PM-03:00PM
Mount Holyoke College
120160
Skinner Hall 216
dfitzgib@mtholyoke.edu
119713,120160
We live in an age of energy crises, in which the future of energy is questioned in countless headlines and Twitter feeds. These concerns often include other assumptions about energy's past, in particular the idea that social change invariably follows the discovery of new energy technologies. From food to fuel cells, this colloquium charts a more complicated and interesting history, a history in which people have continually shaped and made meaningful the energies that fuel the modern world.
Prereq: 4 credits in history.