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Cultures of energy : power, practices, technologies /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Powerlines : cultures of energy in the twenty-first century / Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, Thomas Love
- Theorizing energy and culture. The fossil interlude : Euro-American power and the return of the physiocrats / Alf Hornborg ; Energy consumption as cultural practice : implications for the theory and policy of sustainable energy use / Harold Wilhite ; Conversation 1. Theorizing energy and culture / Michael Degani [and others]
- Culture and energy : technology, meaning, cosmology. Considering energy : E = mc2 = (magic culture)2 / Stephanie Rupp ; Multinatural resources : ontologies of energy and the politics of inevitability in Alaska / Chelsea Chapman ; Siting, scale, and social capital : wind energy development in Wyoming / Sarah Strauss and Devon Reeser ; Cartel consciousness and horizontal integration in energy industry / Arthur Mason ; Conversation 2. Energy, technology, cosmology / Chelsea Chapman [and others]
- Electrification and transformation. Electrifying transitions : power and culture in rural Cajamarca, Peru / Thomas Love and Anna Garwood ; Space, time, and sociomaterial relationships : moral aspects of the arrival of electricity in rural Zanzibar / Tanja Winther ; Emergency power : time, ethics, and electricity in postsocialist Tanzania / Michael Degani ; Conversation 3. Electrification and transformation / Michael Degani [and others]
- Energy contested : culture and power. Eco-risk and the case of fracking / Elizabeth Cartwright ; Specters of syndromes and the everyday lives of Wyoming energy workers / Jessica Smith Rolston ; Energy affects : proximity and distance in the production of expert knowedge about biofuel sustainability / Derek Newberry ; Local power : harnessing NIMBYism for sustainable suburban energy production / Scott Vandehey ; Conversation 4. Energy contested : culture and power / Elizabeth Cartwright [and others]
- Energy contested : borders and boundaries. Oil's magic : contestation and materiality / Gisa Weszkalnys ; Energy politics on the "other" U.S.-Mexico border / Lisa Breglia ; Beyond the horizon : oil and gas along the Gulf of Mexico / Thomas McGuire and Diane Austin ; Conversation 5. Energy contested : borders and boundaries / Lisa Breglia [and others].