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Past and Present Energy Societies How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures Nina Möllers, Karin Zachmann
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Science studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
- Science Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy.
- Technology.
- Consumption.
- History.
- Culture.
- Science.
- History of Technology.
- History of the 20th Century.
- Environmental History.
- Sociology of Technology.
- Local Subjects:
- Energy.
- Technology.
- Consumption.
- History.
- Culture.
- Science.
- History of Technology.
- History of the 20th Century.
- Environmental History.
- Sociology of Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Möllers/Zachmann (eds.), Past and How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Nina Möllers (PhD) is researcher at the Deutsches Museum (Munich) and curator of the Rachel Carson Center. Her research interests include Museum and Environmental Studies, History of Technology and the American South.
- Karin Zachmann (PhD) is Professor of History of Technology at the Technical University of Munich. She is known for her scholarship on engineering professions and technical education, history of consumption, and gender history.
- Summary:
- Abundant, salutary, problematic – energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice.By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.
- Reviewed in: ETDE, 7 (2012)
- »Ein kohärenter Band, dessen Beiträge um das Verhältnis von Energie, Technologie und Gesellschaftsentwicklung kreisen und
- »The book is highly relevant for scholars of energy and society, especially for those looking for new ways of analysing relations between energy, culture, politics and technology. All the essays are fresh, new and inspiring for scholars investigating energy and society in Europe as well as in other countries.«
- Contents:
- 1 Inhalt 5 Past and Present Energy Societies 7 Electrifying the World 45 "We want to live electrically!" 79 Filming Electrical Consumption 109 Managing Energy Consumption 137 Saving Energy by Shifting Clocks? 163 Energy Consumption Practices and Social Inequality 195 Cultural Meanings of Wood Gas as Automobile Fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 223 Missing Green in the Black Gold 249 Publics in the Pipeline 277 Patterns of Energy Transitions 305 Authors 331 Figures and Tables 335
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839419649
- 3839419646
- OCLC:
- 1023559882
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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