Demanding Energy: Space, Time and Change

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This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for? This starting point foregrounds the diverse social processes implicated in the making of energy demand and how these change over time to shape the past patterns, present dynamics and future trajectories of energy use. Through a series of innovative case studies, the book explores how energy demand is embedded in shared practices and activities within society, such as going to music festivals, cooking food, travelling for business or leisure and working in hospitals. Demanding Energy investigates the dynamics of energy demand in organisations and everyday life, and demonstrates how an understanding of spatiality and temporality is crucial for grasping the relationship between energy demand and everyday practices. This collection will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of energy, climate change, transport, sustainability and sociologies and geographies of consumption and environment. Chapters 1 and 15 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Demanding Energy: An Introduction (Allison Hui, Rosie Day, Gordon Walker)....Pages 1-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-30 Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures (Alan Wiig)....Pages 31-50 Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-In: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva’s More Affluent Households (Marlyne Sahakian)....Pages 51-71 Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and Their Energy Use Implications (Michael E. P. Allen)....Pages 73-93 Front Matter ....Pages 95-98 Towards a ‘Meaning’-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability (Katerina Psarikidou)....Pages 99-119 Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces (Véronique Beillan, Sylvie Douzou)....Pages 121-139 Front Matter ....Pages 141-144 The Car as a Safety-Net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty (Caroline Mullen, Greg Marsden)....Pages 145-164 The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction (Julian Burkinshaw)....Pages 165-181 Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life (Rosie Day, Russell Hitchings, Emmet Fox, Susan Venn, Julia F. Hibbert)....Pages 183-200 Front Matter ....Pages 201-204 Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time-Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand (Mathieu Durand-Daubin, Ben Anderson)....Pages 205-231 Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time (Mary Greene)....Pages 233-256 Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice (Ian Jones, James Faulconbridge, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable)....Pages 257-277 Front Matter ....Pages 279-282 Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology (Mitchell Curtis, Jacopo Torriti, Stefan Thor Smith)....Pages 283-312 Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination (Stanley Blue)....Pages 313-337 Front Matter ....Pages 339-339 Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy (Allison Hui, Rosie Day, Gordon Walker)....Pages 341-354 Back Matter ....Pages 355-361