UID:
almahu_9949384417802882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781350102651
,
1350102652
,
9781350102668
,
1350102660
,
9781350102675
,
1350102679
,
1350102644
,
9781350102644
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9781003085225
,
1003085229
,
9781000184785
,
1000184781
,
9781000188233
,
100018823X
,
9781000181609
,
100018160X
Content:
"What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropology and science and technology studies, raising fascinating questions about the contemporary world and its future. Through ethnographic studies of bulbs, bicycles, dams, power grids and much more, the contributors shed light on practices that are often overlooked, showing how electricity is enacted in multiple ways. Electrifying Anthropology moves beyond the idea of electricity as an immovable force, and instead offers a set of potential trajectories for thinking about electricity and its effects in contemporary society. With new contributions on an emerging area of research, this timely collection will be of value to students and scholars of anthropology, science and technology studies, geography and engineering."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Electrifying anthropology London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781350102644
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003085225
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003085225
