An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK

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 timesuch as spontaneity, anticipation, and family timeand the ways in which they extend ethical imaginations, create new forms of sociality, and engender human agency.

Bridges engineering, practice theory, ethnography, and the sociology of time Explores domestic energy demand through ethnographic research with families in the United Kingdom Probes everyday approaches to time and how they extend ethical imaginations, create new forms of sociality, and engender human agency

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Roxana Moröanu Firth is a social anthropologist working in the fields of computing, sustainability and innovation. She is a Research Associate at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, UK, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, such as Design Studies, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Time We HaveThe 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.