Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures /: exploring electrical practices and infrastructures. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik, Thomas Yarrow.
• Editors: Abram, Simone; Winthereik, Brit Ross, 1973-; Yarrow, Thomas, 1977-
• Contents: 1. Introduction to Current ThinkingSimone Abram, Durham University, UK, Brit Winthereik, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Tom Yarrow, Durham University, UK2. Electricity is Not a NounGretchen Bakke, McGill University, Canada3. Widened Reason and Deepened Optimism: Electricity and Morality in Durkheim's Anthropology and Our Own Leo Coleman, Hunter College, USA4. No Current: Electricity and Disconnection in Rural IndiaJamie Cross, University of Edinburgh, UK5. What the E-bike Tells Us About the Anthropology of EnergyNathalie Ortar, CNRS, France6. At the Edge of the Network of Power in Japan, c.1910s-1960sHiroki Shin, Birkbeck University London, UK7. Can the Mekong Speak? On Hydropower, Models and Thing-PowerCasper Bruun Jensen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark 8. Electrification and the Everyday Spaces of State Power in Postcolonial Mozambique Joshua Kirshner, University of York, UK & Marcus Power, Durham University, UK 9. Big Grid: The Computing Beast That Preceded Big Data Canay Özden-Schilling, MIT, USA10. Touring the Nuclear Sublime: Power Plant Tours as Tools of GovernmentTristan Loloum, Lausanne University, Switzerland11. AfterwordSarah Pink, RMIT University, AustraliaBibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.46; Electricity -- Social aspects; Anthropology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350102651; 9781350102668
• Related ISBNs: 9781350102644
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