Electrifying Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures
Redaktion: Abram, Simone; Yarrow, Thomas; Winthereik, Brit Ross

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Produktbeschreibung

What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropology and science and technology studies, raising fascinating questions about the contemporary world and its future. Through ethnographic studies of bulbs, bicycles, dams, power grids and much more, the contributors shed light on practices that are often overlooked, showing how electricity is enacted in multiple ways. Electrifying Anthropology moves beyond the idea of electricity as an immovable force, and instead offers a set of potential trajectories for thinking about electricity and its effects in contemporary society. With new contributions on an emerging area of research, this timely collection will be of value to students and scholars of anthropology, science and technology studies, geography and engineering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000184785
• Artikelnr.: 59535764

Autorenporträt

Simone Abram is Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, UK. She has an MEng in electrical engineering. Brit Ross Winthereik is Professor of Science and Technology Studies, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Thomas Yarrow is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figuresNotes on contributorsAcknowledgements1 Current thinking - an
introduction Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik and Thomas Yarrow2
Electricity is not a noun Gretchen Bakke3 Widened reason and deepened
optimism: Electricity and morality in Durkheim's anthropology and our own
Leo Coleman4 No current: Electricity and disconnection in rural India Jamie
Cross5 What the e-bike tells us about the anthropology of energy Nathalie
Ortar6 At the edge of the network of power in Japan, c. 1910s-1960s Hiroki
Shin7 Can the Mekong speak? On hydropower, models and 'thing-power' Casper
Bruun Jensen8 Electrification and the everyday spaces of state power in
postcolonial Mozambique Joshua Kirshner and Marcus Power9 Big grid: Th e
computing beast that preceded big data Canay Özden-Schilling10 Touring the
nuclear sublime: Power-plant tours as tools of government Tristan Loloum11
Afterword: Electricity as inspiration - towards indeterminate interventions
Sarah PinkIndex