Demanding Energy

Offers a social scientific perspective on the topic of energy demand

Focuses on the diverse and varied processes of energy demand embedded in everyday life

Challenges existing assumptions in the relationship between social dynamics and energy

Offers a social scientific perspective on the topic of energy demand Focuses on the diverse and varied processes of energy demand embedded in everyday life Challenges existing assumptions in the relationship between social dynamics and energy

Autorentext

Allison Hui is Academic Fellow at the Department of Sociology and DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Rosie Day is Senior Lecturer in the Environment and Society at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Gordon Walker is Professor at the DEMAND Centre and Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Inhalt

1. Demanding Energy: An Introduction.- Part 1 - Making Connections.- 2.Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures.- 3. Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-in: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva's More Affluent Households.- 4. Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and their Energy Use Implications.- Part 2 Unpacking Meanings.- 5. Towards a 'Meaning'-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability.- 6. Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces.- Part 3 - Situating Agency.- 7. The Car as a Safety-net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty.- 8. The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction.- 9. Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life.- Part 4 - Tracing Trajectories.- 10. Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand.- 11. Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time.- 12. Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice.- Part 5 - Shifting Rhythms.- 13. Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology.- 14. Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination.- Part 6 Researching Demand.- 15. Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy