Energy materiality: A conceptual review of multi-disciplinary approachesShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Energy Research & Social Science, ISSN 2214-6296, E-ISSN 2214-6326, Vol. 56, article id UNSP 101220Article in journal (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 BV , 2019. Vol. 56, article id UNSP 101220
Keywords [en]
Materiality, Technology, Actor-Network Theory, Infrastructure, Large Technical Systems, Spatiality
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
History of Science, Technology and Environment
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-259413DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2019.101220ISI: 000482238000016Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85067615063OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-259413DiVA, id: diva2:1353988
Note
QC 20220126
2019-09-242019-09-242025-05-05Bibliographically approved