Demanding Energy : Space, Time and Change / edited by Allison Hui, Rosie Day, Gordon Walker.
Hui, Allison, editor.; Day, Rosie, editor.; Walker, Gordon, editor.
2018
GE195
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Title
Demanding Energy : Space, Time and Change / edited by Allison Hui, Rosie Day, Gordon Walker.
ISBN
9783319619910
3319619918
9783319619903
331961990X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61991-0
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIII, 361 pages 30 illustrations) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-61991-0 doi
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GE195
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.7
Summary
This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for? This starting point foregrounds the diverse social processes implicated in the making of energy demand and how these change over time to shape the past patterns, present dynamics and future trajectories of energy use. Through a series of innovative case studies, the book explores how energy demand is embedded in shared practices and activities within society, such as going to music festivals, cooking food, travelling for business or leisure and working in hospitals. Demanding Energy investigates the dynamics of energy demand in organisations and everyday life, and demonstrates how crucial an understanding of spatiality and temporality is in order to grasp the relationship between energy demand and everyday practices. This collection will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of energy, climate change, transport, sustainability and sociologies and geographies of consumption and environment. Chapters 1 and 15 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
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Hui, Allison, editor.
Day, Rosie, editor.
Walker, Gordon, editor.
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1. Demanding Energy: An Introduction
Part 1
Making Connections
2. Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures
3. Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-in: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva's More Affluent Households
4. Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and their Energy Use Implications
Part 2
Unpacking Meanings
5. Towards a 'Meaning'-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability
6. Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces
Part 3
Situating Agency
7. The Car as a Safety-net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty
8. The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction
9. Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life
Part 4
Tracing Trajectories
10. Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand
11. Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time
12. Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice
Part 5
Shifting Rhythms
13. Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology
14. Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination
Part 6
Researching Demand
15. Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy.

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