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Taylor & Francis Cultures of Energy Power Practices Technologies 2013 Edition by Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, Thomas Love
This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe. Theoretical chapters situate pressing energy issues in larger conceptual frames, and ethnographic case studies reveal energy as it is imagined, used, and contested in a variety of cultural contexts. Contributors address issues including the connection between resource flows and social relationships in energy systems; cultural transformation and notions of progress and collapse; the blurring of technology and magic; social tensions that accompany energy contraction; and sociocultural changes required in affluent societies to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Each of five thematic sections concludes with an integrative and provocative conversation among the authors. The volume is an ideal tool for teaching unique, contemporary, and comparative perspectives on social theories of science and technology in undergraduate and graduate courses. Table of contents :- Introduction: Cultures of Energy, Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, and Thomas Love Part I: Energy in Global and Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1: Energy Consumption as Cultural Practice, Harold Wilhite Chapter 2: After Peak Oil, Alf Hornborg In Conversation: Theorizing Energy and Culture, Harold Wilhite, Stephen Gudeman, and Alf Hornborg Part II: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology Chapter 3: Considering Energy: Meanings and Metaphors in New York City, Stephanie Rupp Chapter 4: Multinational Resoures: Plural Ontologies and Political Ecologies in Central Alaskan Energy Development, Chelsea Chapman Chapter 5: The Raw and the Cooked, Redux: Energy Development Mythology in Southeastern Wyoming, Sarah Strauss and Devon Reeser Chapter 6: Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry, Arthur Mason In Conversation: Energy, Technology, Cosmology, Stephanie Rupp, Chelsea Chapman, Sarah Strauss, Devon Reeser, Arthur Mason Part III: Electrification, Transformation Chapter 7: Electrifying Transitions: Power and Culture in Cajamarca, Peru, Thomas Love and Anna Garwood Chapter 8: Space, Time, and Socio-material Relationships: Moral Aspects of the Arrival of Electricity in Rural Zanzibari Homes, Tanja Winther Chapter 9: Ethics and Energy in Postcolonial Tanzania, Michael Degani In Conversation: Energy, Electricity, Cultural Transformations, Thomas Love, Anna Garwood, Tanja Winther, Michael Degani Part IV: Energy Contested: Local/Global Tensions, Culture, Power Chapter 10: Natural Gas Extraction, Water Quality and the Internalized Ecology of Fracking, Elizabeth Cartwright Chapter 11: Specters of Syndromes and Everyday Lives of Wyoming Energy Workers, Jessica Smith Rolston Chapter 12: The "Serious Game" of Selling Green Energy in Brazil, Derek Newberry Chapter 13: Local Power: Harnessing NIMBYism for Sustainable Energy Production and Distribution, Scott Vandehey In Conversation: Local/Global Tensions, Culture, Power, Boundaries, Elizabeth Cartwright, Jessica Smith Rolston, Derek Newberry, Scott Vandehey Part V: Energy, Boundaries, Politics Chapter 14: Reconsidering the Curse of Oil: Between the Material and the Imagined, Gisa Weszkalnys Chapter 15: Energy Politics on the "Other" US/Mexico Border, Lisa Breglia Chapter 16, Beyond the Horizon: Oil and Gas along the Gulf of Mexico, Diane Austin and Tom McGuire In Conversation: Energy, Boundaries, Politics, Gisa Weszkalnys, Lisa Breglia, Diane Austin, Tom McGuire Afterword, Laura Nader Index