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Ashley has published 5 books, seven co-edited volumes, and over seventy single-author articles in edited collections and peer-reviewed journals such as African Studies Review, Atlantic Studies, Cultural Critique, Interventions, Jouvert, New Formations, Postcolonial Studies, Postmodern Culture, Screen, Small Axe, South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Text, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.
Books
People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons
September, 2020
We need 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.
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Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
March, 2017
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis
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Extinction: A Radical History
July, 2016
Extinction, Dawson argues, cannot be understood in isolation from a critique of our economic system. To achieve this we need to transgress the boundaries between science, environmentalism and radical politics.
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Articles published in newspapers, blog sites, and other popular venues
We need a national People’s Power campaign
To win public support for the cause of energy transition, People’s Power campaigns need to develop radical new forms of energy democracy, ones that involve equitable popular access and governance directed to the needs of those who have borne the toxic brunt of fossil capitalism.
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New World Disorder: Black Hawk Down and the Eclipse of U.S. Military Humanism in Africa
African Studies Review 54.2 (September 2011), 177-194.
Uneven Developments
a blog about the environment, education, and other pretty depressing topics
Old King Coal
There is a tendency among critics in the growing Energy Humanities camp to focus almost exclusively on the symbolic politics […]
Autocratic denial of the potential for individual human flourishing
From David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, which I’m currently reading: Marx’s position is that capitalism can […]
Fossil Free
The campaign to divest from fossil fuels continues to pick up steam on campuses around the US and throughout the […]
Bleak, but not unexpected, news: capitalism is destroying the planet
Bleak, but not unexpected, news today. According to a new report published in Nature, sea level rise over the last […]