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2019 (English)In: Energy Research & Social Science, ISSN 2214-6296, E-ISSN 2214-6326, Vol. 56, article id UNSP 101220Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This jointly authored essay reviews recent scholarship in the social sciences, broadly understood, that focuses on the materiality of energy. Although this work is extraordinarily diverse in its disciplinary and interdisciplinary influences and its theoretical and methodological commitments, we discern four areas of convergence and divergence that we term the locations, uses, relationalities, and analytical roles of energy materiality. We trace these convergences and divergences through five recent scholarly conversations: materiality as a constraint on actors' behavior; historical energy systems; mobility, space and scale; discourse and power via energy materialities; and energy becoming material.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ELSEVIER, 2019
Keywords
Materiality, Technology, Actor-Network Theory, Infrastructure, Large Technical Systems, Spatiality
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-259413 (URN)10.1016/j.erss.2019.101220 (DOI)000482238000016 ()2-s2.0-85067615063 (Scopus ID)
Note
QC 20190924
2019-09-242019-09-242019-11-26Bibliographically approved