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6 - Anthropology and Energy Policy

from Part I - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

By
Charlotte Johnson
Edited by
Marc Ozawa ,
Jonathan Chaplin ,
Michael Pollitt ,
David Reiner  and
Paul Warde
Marc Ozawa
Affiliation:
Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge
Jonathan Chaplin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Michael Pollitt
Affiliation:
Judge Business School, Cambridge
David Reiner
Affiliation:
Judge Business School, Cambridge
Paul Warde
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

Energy and its management through policy touches on some core anthropological topics such as power, value and identity. Innovative anthropological approaches are being used to reveal the interplay between energy and societies. These include ethnographies of communities and their relationship to energy resources, analysis of the material culture of homes, as well as new areas of research into digital systems. This chapter outlines the questions that energy policy raises for anthropologists as well as current approaches being used to investigate them.

Keywords

ethnographyenergy anthropologypowerconsumptionsocietymaterial culturedigital technology
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In Search of Good Energy Policy , pp. 69 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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