Past and Present Energy Societies
Subtitle: How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
Contributors: Zachmann, Karin; Möllers, Nina; Zachmann, Karin
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 20120515
Place of publication: Bielefeld, Germany
ISBN-13: 9783839419649
Subjects: History of engineering & technology
Description: 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.
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