Umfang:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781611321654
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9781611321678
Inhalt:
This path-breaking, comparative volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Powerlines: Cultures of Energy in the Twenty-first Century -- PART 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 -- CONVERSATION 1. Theorizing Energy and Culture -- PART 2. Culture and Energy: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology -- 3. Considering Energy: E = mc2 = (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 -- CONVERSATION 2. Energy, Technology, Cosmology -- PART 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 -- CONVERSATION 3. Electrification and Transformation -- PART 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 -- CONVERSATION 4. Energy Contested: Culture and Power -- PART 5. 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
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CONVERSATION 5. Energy Contested: Borders and Boundaries -- Afterword Maximizing Anthropology -- Appendix Energy: Power Units and Concepts -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Strauss, Sarah Cultures of Energy Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9781611321654
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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