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Energy Futures - Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Energy Futures - Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life (Hardcover)
Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences
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Everyday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world
of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging
technologies, data analytics and automation open up new
possibilities which have implications for energy generation,
storage and energy demand. To support these changes we urgently
need to rethink how energy will be sourced, shared and used. Yet
existing approaches to this problem, driven by engineering, data
analytics and capital, are dangerously conservative and entrenched.
Energy Futures critically evaluates this context, and the energy
infrastructures, stakeholders, and politics that participate in it,
to propose plausible, responsible and ethical modes of encountering
possible energy futures. Imagining anthropocene challenges,
emerging technologies and everyday life otherwise through
empirically grounded studies, opens up possible energy futures.
Energy Futures proposes and demonstrates a new critical and
interventional futures-oriented energy anthropology. Combining the
theories and methods of futures anthropology with the critical
expertise and perspectives of energy anthropology creates a
powerful mode of engagement, which this book argues is needed to
disrupt the dominant narratives about our energy futures. Its
contributors collectively reveal and evidence through innovative
ethnographic practice how new knowledge about imagined and possible
energy futures can be mobilised in engagements with emerging
technologies, anthropocene challenges and everyday realities. In
doing so it brings together authors, analytical expertise and
ethnographic evidence from the global south, north and places in
between, generated through innovative methodologies including
remote video and comic strip methods and documentary video practice
as well as long term fieldwork.
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