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Autore |
Möllers Nina |
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Past and present energy societies : how energy connects politics, technologies and cultures / / edited by Nina Möllers and Karin Zachmann |
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Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2012 |
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Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (339 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Power resources |
Energy policy |
Energy industries |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1 Inhalt 5 Past and Present Energy Societies 7 Electrifying the World 45 "We want to live electrically!" 79 Filming Electrical Consumption 109 Managing Energy Consumption 137 Saving Energy by Shifting Clocks? 163 Energy Consumption Practices and Social Inequality 195 Cultural Meanings of Wood Gas as Automobile Fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 223 Missing Green in the Black Gold 249 Publics in the Pipeline 277 Patterns of Energy Transitions 305 Authors 331 Figures and Tables 335 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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»The book is highly relevant for scholars of energy and society, especially for those looking for new ways of analysing relations between energy, culture, politics and technology. All the essays are fresh, new and inspiring for scholars investigating energy and society in Europe as well as in other countries.« Jytte Thorndahl, ICON, 20/1 (2014) »Ein kohärenter Band, dessen Beiträge um das Verhältnis von Energie, Technologie und Gesellschaftsentwicklung kreisen und Rüdiger Graf, H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.09.2012 Reviewed in: ETDE, 7 (2012) |
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