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Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment
Jennifer Wenzel
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Description for Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment
Hardback. A collection of brief reflections on keywords related to energy, including the various substances and forces with which humans have produced energy, and their past, present, and future implications for values, politics, culture, and environment. Editor(s): Szeman, Imre. Num Pages: 400 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 4522 x 6452 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1098.
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another—from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next—transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way? Fueling Culture offers a compendium of keywords written by scholars and practitioners from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences. ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823273904
SKU
V9780823273904
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99-1
About Jennifer Wenzel
Imre Szeman (External Editor) Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies and Professor of English, Film Studies and Sociology at the University of Alberta. Jennifer Wenzel (External Editor) Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African ... Read more
Reviews for Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment
"This is a bold, ambitious, and thought-provoking collection. Fueling Culture presents multiple ports of embarkation, geopolitical sites, archives, substances, genres, and methodologies for making sense of how deeply energy and culture are intermeshed."
-Stacy Alaimo University of Texas at Arlington
-Stacy Alaimo University of Texas at Arlington