Cultures of energy : power, practices, technologies / edited by Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, Thomas Love.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strauss, Sarah.

Rupp, Stephanie.

Love, Thomas F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy consumption--Social aspects.

Energy consumption.

Power resources--Social aspects.

Power resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 including the connection between resource flows and social relationships in energy systems; cultural transformation and notions of progress and collapse; the blurring of technology and magic; social tension

Contents:

Contents; Introduction. Powerlines: Cultures of Energy in the Twenty-first Century - Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, Thomas Love; Part 1. Theorizing Energy and Culture; 1. The Fossil Interlude: Euro-American Power and the Return of the Physiocrats - Alf Hornborg; 2. 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, Alf Hornborg, Thomas Love, Sarah Strauss, Harold Wilhite; Part 2. Culture and Energy: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology

3. Considering Energy: E = mc2 = (magic·culture)2 - Stephanie Rupp 4. Multinatural Resources: Ontologies of Energy and the Politics of Inevitability in Alaska - Chelsea Chapman; 5. Siting, Scale, and Social Capital: Wind Energy Development in Wyoming - Sarah Strauss and Devon Reeser; 6. Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry - Arthur Mason; Conversation 2. Energy, Technology, Cosmology - Chelsea Chapman, Arthur Mason, Devon Reeser, Stephanie Rupp, Sarah Strauss; Part 3. Electrification and Transformation

7. Electrifying Transitions: Power and Culture in Rural Cajamarca, Peru - Thomas Love and Anna Garwood 8. Space, Time, and Sociomaterial Relationships: Moral Aspects of the Arrival of Electricity in Rural Zanzibar - Tanja Winther; 9. Emergency Power: Time, Ethics, and Electricity in Postsocialist Tanzania - Michael Degani; Conversation 3. Electrification and Transformation - Michael Degani, Anna Garwood, Thomas Love, Stephanie Rupp, Tanja Winther; Part 4. Energy Contested: Culture and Power; 10. Eco-risk and the Case of Fracking - Elizabeth Cartwright

11. Specters of Syndromes and the Everyday Lives of Wyoming Energy Workers - Jessica Smith Rolston 12. Energy Affects: Proximity and Distance in the Production of Expert Knowledge About Biofuel Sustainability - Derek Newberry; 13. Local Power: Harnessing Nimbyism for Sustainable Suburban Energy Production - Scott Vandehey; Conversation 4. Energy Contested: Culture and Power - Elizabeth Cartwright, Thomas Love, Derek Newberry, Jessica Smith Rolston, Sarah Strauss, Scott Vandehey; Part 5. Energy Contested: Borders and Boundaries; 14. Oil's Magic: Contestation and Materiality - Gisa Weszkalnys

15. Energy Politics on the "Other" U.S.-Mexico Border - Lisa Breglia 16. 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, Thomas Love, Thomas McGuire, Gisa Weszkalnys; Afterword: Maximizing Anthropology - Laura Nader; Appendix. Energy: Power Units and Concepts; Selected Bibliography; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

First published 2013 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-43083-5

1-315-43084-3

1-315-43085-1

1-61132-167-0

9781315430850

OCLC:

823721314