Cultures of Energy

Abstract

Introduction: Cultures of Energy, Sarah Strauss, Stephanie Rupp, and Thomas Love Part I: Energy in Global and Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1: Energy Consumption as Cultural Practice, Harold Wilhite Chapter 2: After Peak Oil, Alf Hornborg In Conversation: Theorizing Energy and Culture, Harold Wilhite, Stephen Gudeman, and Alf Hornborg Part II: Technology, Meaning, Cosmology Chapter 3: Considering Energy: Meanings and Metaphors in New York City, Stephanie Rupp Chapter 4: Multinational Resoures: Plural Ontologies and Political Ecologies in Central Alaskan Energy Development, Chelsea Chapman Chapter 5: The Raw and the Cooked, Redux: Energy Development Mythology in Southeastern Wyoming, Sarah Strauss and Devon Reeser Chapter 6: Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry, Arthur Mason In Conversation: Energy, Technology, Cosmology, Stephanie Rupp, Chelsea Chapman, Sarah Strauss, Devon Reeser, Arthur Mason Part III: Electrification, Transformation Chapter 7: Electrifying Transitions: Power and Culture in Cajamarca, Peru, Thomas Love and Anna Garwood Chapter 8: Space, Time, and Socio-material Relationships: Moral Aspects of the Arrival of Electricity in Rural Zanzibari Homes, Tanja Winther Chapter 9: Ethics and Energy in Postcolonial Tanzania, Michael Degani In Conversation: Energy, Electricity, Cultural Transformations, Thomas Love, Anna Garwood, Tanja Winther, Michael Degani Part IV: Energy Contested: Local/Global Tensions, Culture, Power Chapter 10: Natural Gas Extraction, Water Quality and the Internalized Ecology of Fracking, Elizabeth Cartwright Chapter 11: Specters of Syndromes and Everyday Lives of Wyoming Energy Workers, Jessica Smith Rolston Chapter 12: The Serious Game of Selling Green Energy in Brazil, Derek Newberry Chapter 13: Local Power: Harnessing NIMBYism for Sustainable Energy Production and Distribution, Scott Vandehey In Conversation: Local/Global Tensions, Culture, Power, Boundaries, Elizabeth Cartwright, Jessica Smith Rolston, Derek Newberry, Scott Vandehey Part V: Energy, Boundaries, Politics Chapter 14: Reconsidering the Curse of Oil: Between the Material and the Imagined, Gisa Weszkalnys Chapter 15: Energy Politics on the Other US/Mexico Border, Lisa Breglia Chapter 16, Beyond the Horizon: Oil and Gas along the Gulf of Mexico, Diane Austin and Tom McGuire In Conversation: Energy, Boundaries, Politics, Gisa Weszkalnys, Lisa Breglia, Diane Austin, Tom McGuire Afterword, Laura Nader Index