Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures /: exploring electrical practices and infrastructures. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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