Past and Present Energy Societies How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures

• Daljnji autori: Möllers, Nina (Urednik), Zachmann, Karin (Urednik)
• Format: Elektronički Poglavlje knjige
• Jezik: engleski
• Izdano: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2012
• Serija: Science Studies
• Teme: History of engineering & technology; History; Energy; Technology; Consumption; Culture; Science; History of Technology; History of the 20th Century; Environmental History; Sociology of Technology; Bioenergy; Electricity; Sweden; Vattenfall; Wood gas; World energy consumption
• Online pristup: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Sažetak

Abundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.

ISBN

transcript.9783839419649
9783839419649

Pristup

Open Access