Electric Life

ENDORSEMENTS “Electricity is nominally a public utility, but it is often managed in ways that do not support public needs. Electric Life lucidly explains the struggle for energy democracy in Atlanta and the US South, the fraught roles of regulators and energy corporations within it, and why we can and should reclaim electricity as a truly public good.” —Rebecca Lave, coauthor of Streams of Revenue ""Electric Life offers new conceptual vocabularies for thinking about the dynamics of capitalism in the context of energy transition, and from the side of those historically excluded from its benefits. This incisive book makes an important contribution to scholarship committed to uncovering the intersecting histories of environmental, racial, and economic injustice.” —Beverly Mullings, Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto “Electric Life connects energy infrastructure and the intimacy of everyday life to ask how energy transitions could lead to more equitable societies. For Luke, this transition is an opportunity for democratizing energy—a chance to rebuild the energy system and redistribute power more equitably by asking how and why people need and use energy, and what systems can best meet these collective needs.” —Gabriela Valdivia, coauthor of Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia