Screen LibraryPast 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...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Science studies
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (338 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839419649 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | HD9502 |
| CLC: | F416.2 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Past and Present Energy Societies / Electrifying the World / "We want to live electrically!" / Filming Electrical Consumption / Managing Energy Consumption / Saving Energy by Shifting Clocks? / Energy Consumption Practices and Social Inequality / Cultural Meanings of Wood Gas as Automobile Fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 / Missing Green in the Black Gold / Publics in the Pipeline / Patterns of Energy Transitions / Authors -- Figures and Tables. |