Title & Author:

Cultures of energy : power, practices, technologies / Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, Thomas Love, editors.

Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2013.

Description:

360 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index.
Introduction. Powerlines : cultures of energy in the twenty-first century / Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, Thomas Love -- Theorizing energy and culture. The fossil interlude : Euro-American power and the return of the physiocrats / Alf Hornborg ; Energy consumption as cultural practice : implications for the theory and policy of sustainable energy use / Harold Wilhite ; Conversation 1. Theorizing energy and culture / Michael Degani [and others] -- Culture and energy : technology, meaning, cosmology. Considering energy : E = mc² = (magic culture)² / Stephanie Rupp ; Multinatural resources : ontologies of energy and the politics of inevitability in Alaska / Chelsea Chapman ; Siting, scale, and social capital : wind energy development in Wyoming / Sarah Strauss and Devon Reeser ; Cartel consciousness and horizontal integration in energy industry / Arthur Mason ; Conversation 2. Energy, technology, cosmology / Chelsea Chapman [and others] -- Electrification and transformation. Electrifying transitions : power and culture in rural Cajamarca, Peru / Thomas Love and Anna Garwood ; Space, time, and sociomaterial relationships : moral aspects of the arrival of electricity in rural Zanzibar / Tanja Winther ; Emergency power : time, ethics, and electricity in postsocialist Tanzania / Michael Degani ; Conversation 3. Electrification and transformation / Michael Degani [and others] -- Energy contested : culture and power. Eco-risk and the case of fracking / Elizabeth Cartwright ; Specters of syndromes and the everyday lives of Wyoming energy workers / Jessica Smith Rolston ; Energy affects : proximity and distance in the production of expert knowedge about biofuel sustainability / Derek Newberry ; Local power : harnessing NIMBYism for sustainable suburban energy production / Scott Vandehey ; Conversation 4. Energy contested : culture and power / Elizabeth Cartwright [and others] -- Energy contested : borders and boundaries. Oil's magic : contestation and materiality / Gisa Weszkalnys ; Energy politics on the "other" U.S.-Mexico border / Lisa Breglia ; Beyond the horizon : oil and gas along the Gulf of Mexico / Thomas McGuire and Diane Austin ; Conversation 5. Energy contested : borders and boundaries / Lisa Breglia [and others].

ISBN:

9781611321654 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1611321654 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781611321661 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1611321662 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781611321678 (institutional ebook)
1611321670 (institutional ebook)
9781611326857 (consumer ebook)
1611326850 (consumer ebook)

Subject:

Energy consumption Social aspects.
Power resources Social aspects.
Ressources énergétiques Aspect social.
Energieverbrauch
Kulturökologie
Energievorrat
Soziale Probleme

Added entries:

Strauss, Sarah.
Rupp, Stephanie.
Love, Thomas F.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296856
Call No.: BIB 243174
Status: Available