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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Main Authors: Möllers, Nina (Author), Zachmann, Karin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:German
Published: transcript Verlag 2012
Series:Science Studies
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Online Access:DE-B1533
DE-860
DE-859
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9783839419649

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