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Title
An ethnography of household energy demand in the UK [electronic resource] : everyday temporalities of digital media usage / by Roxana Moroşanu.
ISBN
9781137593412 (electronic book)
1137593415 (electronic book)
9781137593405
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIII, 199 pages, 10 illustrations, 5 illustrations in color)
Call Number
HD9502.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.79/62 d2 23
Summary
This book challenges the ways we think about human agency by looking at the creativity, ethics, and capacities for social transformation that are embedded in simple actions of “doing”. Stemming from ethnographic research with families in the United Kingdom as part of a wider interdisciplinary project looking at domestic energy demand, this book probes some mundane approaches to time—such as spontaneity, anticipation, and “family time”—and the ways in which they extend ethical imaginations, create new forms of sociality, and engender human agency.
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Includes index.
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Source of Description
Online resource, title from PDF title page (viewed on August 15, 2016).
Series
Palgrave studies in anthropology of sustainability.
Introduction: The Time We Have–The Time We Make
1. How the Light Gets In: A Theoretical Framework for “Ordinary Agency”
2. Encountering Middleborough: Impressions, Methods, and Tacit Knowledge
3. Meeting the Families
4. Spontaneity
5. Anticipation and the Mother-Multiple
6. “Family Time” and Domestic Sociality: Forms of Togetherness and Independence with Digital Media
7. Saving Energy in British Homes: Thoughts and Applications.
