Specialist Knowledge, Carbon Democracy, and Local Technicalities as Basis for the ‘International’: An Interview with Timothy Mitchell

Abstract

Timothy Mitchell moves across disciplinary borders to study entanglements of technology, governance, and fossil energy. Tracing the global through tiny details and mundane processes at the local level, Mitchell suggests replacing technological determinism with infra-theory to understand the limits of government, the role of technical experts, and the change of political systems.