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Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures / edited by Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik and Tomas Yarrow ; with illustrations by Anjan Sarkar.

Lippincott Library HD9685.A2 E566 2019
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Abram, Simone, editor.
Winthereik, Brit Ross, 1973- editor.
Yarrow, Thomas, 1977- editor.
Sarkar, Anjan, illustrator.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Electrification--Social aspects.
Electrification.
Electric power consumption--Social aspects.
Electric power consumption.
Electric power production--Social aspects.
Electric power production.
Physical Description:
ix, 214 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Contents:
Current thinking : an introduction / Simone Abram, Brit Winthereik & Tom Yarrow
Electricity is not a noun / Gretchen Bakke
Widened reason and deepened optimism : electricity and morality in Durkheim's anthropology and our own / Leo Coleman
No current : electricity and disconnection in rural India / Jamie Cross
What the e-bike tells us about the anthropology of energy / Nathalie Ortar
At the edge of the network of power in Japan, c.1910s-1960s / Hiroki Shin
Can the Mekong speak? : on hydropower, models and thing-power / Casper Bruun Jensen
Electrification and the everyday spaces of state power in postcolonial Mozambique / Joshua Kirshner & Marcus Power
Big grid : the computing beast that preceded big data / Canay Özden-Schilling
Touring the nuclear sublime : power plant tours as tools of government / Tristan Loloum.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Electrifying anthropology
ISBN:
9781350102644
1350102644
OCLC:
1081354299
Publisher Number:
99981670022

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