Past and Present Energy Societies
How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Inhalt
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Past and Present Energy Societies
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Cultural Representations of Energy
Electrifying the World
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"We want to live electrically!"
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Filming Electrical Consumption
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Energy Consumption Practices
Managing Energy Consumption
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Saving Energy by Shifting Clocks?
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Energy Consumption Practices and Social Inequality
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Societal Perceptions of Energy Resources
Cultural Meanings of Wood Gas as Automobile Fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945
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Missing Green in the Black Gold
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Publics in the Pipeline
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Patterns of Energy Transitions
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Authors
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Figures and Tables
Seiten 335 - 338
27. April 2014, 338 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-1964-9
Dateigröße: 2.21 MB