Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures /: exploring electrical practices and infrastructures. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures /: exploring electrical practices and infrastructures. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik and Tomas Yarrow ; with illustrations by Anjan Sarkar.
- Editors:
- Abram, Simone
Winthereik, Brit Ross, 1973-
Yarrow, Thomas, 1977- - Other Names:
- Sarkar, Anjan illustrator.
- Contents:
- 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
- Publisher Details:
- Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Subjects:
- 333.793/2
Electrification -- Social aspects
Electric power consumption -- Social aspects
Electric power production -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781003085225
1003085229
9781000184785
1000184781
9781000188233
9781000181609 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350102644
100018823X
100018160X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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