Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy Mitchell

Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy Mitchell

Coal miners could shut down an entire economy by stopping work in one place. Mitchell's argument is that mass democracy grew out of exactly that leverage — and that oil was engineered to remove it.

He traces how pipelines and tankers dispersed the choke points, how Middle Eastern oil politics were built to manage supply rather than maximise it, and what this means for democracy in an era of energy transition.

One of the most original works of political economy in recent decades. It changes how you read energy news.

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