Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures
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Electrifying anthropology : exploring electrical practices and infrastructures
Produced by Amazon, c2019
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge , 2020
"First published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic ... First issued in paperback 2020" -- t.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropology and science and technology studies, raising fascinating questions about the contemporary world and its future. Through ethnographic studies of bulbs, bicycles, dams, power grids and much more, the contributors shed light on practices that are often overlooked, showing how electricity is enacted in multiple ways. Electrifying Anthropology moves beyond the idea of electricity as an immovable force, and instead offers a set of potential trajectories for thinking about electricity and its effects in contemporary society. With new contributions on an emerging area of research, this timely collection will be of value to students and scholars of anthropology, science and technology studies, geography and engineering.
Table of 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 OEzden-Schilling10 Touring the nuclear sublime: Power-plant tours as tools of government Tristan Loloum11 Afterword: Electricity as inspiration - towards indeterminate interventions Sarah PinkIndex
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