Ashley Dawson
author / scholar / activist
Latest Published Work
People’ Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons
People’s Power provides a persuasive critique of a market-led transition to renewable energy. It surveys the early development of the electric grid in the United States, telling the story of battles for public control over power during the Great Depression. This history frames accounts of contemporary campaigns, in both the United States and Europe, that eschew market fundamentalism and sclerotic state power in favor of energy that is green, democratically managed and equitably shared.
People’s Power Writing
Energy Humanities
Ashley’s work in the energy humanities underlines that the world needs a rapid and just transition beyond fossil fuels. We are only going to get such a transition if we can wrench control of our energy systems out of the hands of profit-seeking corporations with a strong stake in continuing business as usual. The struggle for democratic control over energy production, distribution, and use is consequently the key front in the fight for a better, sustainable world.
Urban Planet
We live in an age of mass migration. The climate emergency is intensifying displacement of millions of people. How can anti-racist movements challenge emerging forms of eco-fascism that are spreading hatred and persecuting displaced peoples?
Extinction
Ashley’s work focuses on the global degradation of biodiversity caused by capitalism and colonialism. The capitalist system is based on a fundamental logic: grow or die. This growth imperative is a recipe for the mass extinction of most species on a finite planet
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Media Appearances
Ashley has been interviewed frequently on various podcasts and television shows about his work on the environmental crisis. Click here to access a full list of Ashley’s speaking engagements.
Speaking
Ashley Dawson on Democracy Now, 2019
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