1st Edition
Cultures of Energy Power, Practices, Technologies
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe. Theoretical chapters situate pressing energy issues in larger conceptual frames, and ethnographic case studies reveal energy as it is imagined, used, and contested in a variety of cultural contexts. Contributors address issues... Read more
Powerlines: Cultures of Energy in the Twenty-first Century; 1: Theorizing Energy and Culture; 1: The Fossil Interlude: Euro-American Power and the Return of the Physiocrats; 2: Energy Consumption as Cultural Practice: Implications for the Theory and Policy of Sustainable Energy Use; 1: Theorizing Energy and Culture; 2: Culture and Energy: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology; 3: Considering Energy: E = mc 2 = (magic·culture) 2; 4: Multinatural Resources: Ontologies of Energy and the Politics of Inevitability in Alaska; 5: Siting, Scale, and Social Capital: Wind Energy Development in Wyoming; 6: Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry; 2: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology; 3: Electrification and Transformation; 7: Electrifying Transitions: Power and Culture in Rural Cajamarca, Peru; 8: Space, Time, and Sociomaterial Relationships: Moral Aspects of the Arrival of Electricity in Rural Zanzibar; 9: Emergency Power: Time, Ethics, and Electricity in Postsocialist Tanzania; 3: Electrification and Transformation; 4: Energy Contested: Culture and Power; 10: Eco-risk and the Case of Fracking; 11: Specters of Syndromes and the Everyday Lives of Wyoming Energy Workers; 12: Energy Affects: Proximity and Distance in the Production of Expert Knowledge About Biofuel Sustainability; 13: Local Power: Harnessing nimbyism for Sustainable Suburban Energy Production; 4: Energy Contested: Culture and Power; 1: Energy Contested: Borders and Boundaries; 14: Oil's Magic: Contestation and Materiality; 15: Energy Politics on the “Other” U.S.-Mexico Border; 16: Beyond the Horizon: Oil and Gas Along the Gulf of Mexico; 1: Energy Contested: Borders and Boundaries; 1: Maximizing Anthropology
Biography
Thomas Love, Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp
