Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas

ISBN-13: 9780367195496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 120 str.

Aleksandra Lis

Opis

Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by the largest post-socialist EU Member State from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Poland, to produce knowledge about its energy system in the context of climate change. 

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. New energy objects and the (de-)Orientalization of Poland;  2. Production of expertise, scaling and carbon dioxide in Poland;  3. Production of expertise, scaling and shale gas in Poland;  4. Co-production of sociopolitical orders: energy objects, publics and states;  Conclusion.

O autorze

Aleksandra Lis works as Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She holds a PhD from the Central European University in Budapest and has worked as a research fellow at various research institutions and think tanks, including the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley; the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University in New York; the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science Technology and Society at Graz University of Technology; the Agora Energiewende in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society in Cologne. She has led several research projects on climate and energy politics and on new energy technologies funded by the National Science Centre, the European Commission and the Polish-German Science Foundation.