Energy and Ethics?
Energy raises, if not demands, vital and vexing ethical questions. In what ways does energy contribute to or imperil the kinds of lives and societies that we desire for ourselves and our others? How does the production, distribution, use, and disposal of energy relate to what we consider to be right or good? Anthropologists have studied energy encounters for many decades. However, the frameworks that have become most dominant in the discipline have narrowed the ways in which scholars seek to understand these energy dilemmas. This volume presents a much-needed rethinking and proposes a more nuanced, inclusive, and capacious approach to energy…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Smith, Jessica M.
- ISBN: 978-1-119-59699-8
- EAN: 9781119596998
- Produktnummer: 29781348
- Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Masse: H17.2 cm x B24.5 cm x D0.9 cm 356 g
- Gewicht: 356
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Mette M. High is a Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Focusing on natural resources such as metals and fossil fuels, her research explores how global economic processes intersect with intimate moral views. She conducts research in Mongolia and the United States, and her recent publications include Fear and Fortune: Spirit worlds and emerging economies in the Mongolian gold rush (2017) and Exploring the anthropology of energy: Ethnography, energy and ethics (co-edited with J. Smith, 2017).Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines. Focusing on the American West, her research explores how people, from technicians to engineers and executives, experience work in mining, oil and gas. Her publications include Mining coal and undermining gender: Rhythms of work and family in the American West (2014); Exploring the anthropology of energy: Ethnography, energy and ethics (co-edited with M. High, 2017); and Engaging the underground: An STS field in formation (co-edited with A. Kinchy and R. Phadke, 2018).
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