Past and present energy societies : how energy connects politics, technologies and cultures /
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...
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Bielefeld, Germany :
Transcript Verlag,
2012.
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Science studies.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783839419649 3839419646 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Action Note: | digitized |