Title & Author:

Fueling culture : 101 words for energy and environment / Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger, editors.

Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Description:

xiii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-434).
Introduction -- Obriginal -- Accumlation -- Addiction -- Affect -- America -- Anthropocene 1 -- Anthropocene 2 -- Architecture -- Arctic -- Automobile -- Automobility -- Boom -- Canada -- Catastrophe -- Change -- Charcoal -- China 1 -- China 2 -- Coal -- Coal Ash -- Community -- Corporation -- Crisis -- Dams -- Demand -- Detritus -- Disaster -- Ecology -- Electricity -- Embodiment -- Energopolicts -- Energy -- Energy Reigmes -- Energy Systems -- Ethics -- Evolution -- Exhaust -- Exhaustion -- Fallout -- Fiction -- Fracking -- Future -- Gender -- Green -- Grids -- Guilt -- Identity -- Image -- Infrastructure -- Innervation -- Kerosene -- Lebenskraft -- Limits -- Media -- Mediashock -- Metabolism -- Middle East -- Nature -- Necessity -- Networks -- Nigera -- Nuclear 1 -- Nuclear 2 -- Off-grid -- Offshore Rig -- Petro violience -- Petrorealism -- Photography -- Piplines -- Plastics -- Plastiglomerate -- Renewable -- Resilience -- Resource Curse -- Risk -- Road -- Rubber -- Rural -- Russia -- Servers -- Shame -- Solar -- Spill -- Spills -- Spiritual -- Statistics -- Superhero Comics -- Surveillance -- Sustainability -- Tallow -- Texas -- Textiles -- Unobtainium -- Urban Ecology -- Utopia -- Venezuela -- Whaling -- Wood -- Work 1 -- Work 2 -- "Oil/Lie" -- Afterword .

Summary:

"Fueling Culture offers a compendium of keywords writtern by scholars and practitioners from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences. These keywords offer new ways of thinking about energy as both the source and the limit of how we inhabit culture, with the aim of opening up new ways of understanding the seemingly irresolvable contradictions of dependece upon unsustainable energy forms"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9780823273904 (cloth)
0823273903 (cloth)
9780823273911 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0823273911 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Power resources Terminology.
Environmental sciences Terminology.
Jargon (Terminology)
Technology Social aspects.
Material culture.
Ressources énergétiques Terminologie.
Sciences de l'environnement Terminologie.
Jargon (Terminologie)
Culture matérielle.
material culture (discipline)
Environmental sciences.
Power resources.
Energie
Rohstoff
Umweltschutz

Form/genre:

Terminology.

Added entries:

Szeman, Imre, 1968- editor.
Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969- editor.
Yaeger, Patricia, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294113
Call No.: BIB 239446
Status: External loan