Hui / Day / Walker Demanding Energy

Space, Time and Change
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-61991-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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


Allison Hui is Academic Fellow at the Department of Sociology and DEMAND Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Rosie Day is Senior Lecturer in the Environment and Society at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Gordon Walker is Professor at the DEMAND Centre and Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hui, Allison

Day, Rosie

Walker, Gordon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;7
3;List of Figures;10
4;List of Tables;12
5;1: Demanding Energy: An Introduction;13
5.1;1.1 Space and Demanding Energy;18
5.2;1.2 Time and Demanding Energy;23
5.3;1.3 Change and Demanding Energy;27
5.4;1.4 The Book Structure;31
5.5;Bibliography;33
6;Part 1: Making Connections;39
6.1;2: Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures;43
6.1.1;2.1 Introduction: Charging Smartphone Batteries, Powering the Internet;43
6.1.2;2.2 Background: The Energy Infrastructures of Mobile, Digital Connectivity;45
6.1.3;2.3 Expectations of Constant Connectivity and Public Charging: An Amtrak Rail Journey;48
6.1.4;2.4 Data Centers and the Electricity Underlying Digital Connectivity;54
6.1.5;2.5 Conclusion;57
6.1.6;Bibliography;60
6.2;3: Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-In: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva’s More Affluent Households;63
6.2.1;3.1 Introduction;63
6.2.2;3.2 Concepts and Methodology;65
6.2.3;3.3 Research Findings;69
6.2.3.1; Material Lock-In: Appliances and Spaces;69
6.2.3.2; Social Lock-In: Social Acceptance and Pressures;74
6.2.3.3; Lock-In and the Un-locking of Normality Across Different Contexts and Cultures;76
6.2.4;3.4 Conclusions;78
6.2.5;Bibliography;81
6.3;4: Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and Their Energy Use Implications;84
6.3.1;4.1 Introduction;84
6.3.2;4.2 Organised Events and Temporariness;86
6.3.3;4.3 Characteristics of Temporariness;88
6.3.3.1; Temporal Features;88
6.3.3.2; Spatial Features;94
6.3.4;4.4 Conclusion;101
6.3.5;Bibliography;102
7;Part 2: Unpacking Meanings;105
7.1;5: Towards a ‘Meaning’-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability;109
7.1.1;5.1 Introduction;109
7.1.2;5.2 Temporalities, Mobilities and Sustainability;110
7.1.3;5.3 Towards a ‘Meaning’-ful Temporal Analysis of Mobility Practices;114
7.1.3.1; Traditional Temporal Dichotomies of Mobility Practices: The Case of the Dominant Car System;114
7.1.3.2; Challenging Traditional Temporal Dichotomies of Mobilities: Intersections of Temporalities, Practices and Materialities;117
7.1.3.2.1; Intersections of Temporalities: Changing Perceptions of Speed;118
7.1.3.2.2; Intersections of Practices: Changing Perceptions of Duration;120
7.1.3.2.3; Intersections of Materialities: Changing Perceptions of Rhythmicity;122
7.1.4;5.4 Temporalising Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability;124
7.1.5;Bibliography;126
7.2;6: Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces;130
7.2.1;6.1 Introduction;130
7.2.2;6.2 Inhabitance in Context and the Permeability of Spaces;132
7.2.3;6.3 Temporalities and the Multi-Functionality of Domestic Spaces;139
7.2.4;6.4 Conclusion;143
7.2.5;Bibliography;146
8;Part 3: Situating Agency;149
8.1;7: The Car as a Safety-Net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty;153
8.1.1;7.1 Introduction;153
8.1.2;7.2 Choice and Context;156
8.1.3;7.3 The Study;158
8.1.4;7.4 Findings: Mobility Needs in the Contexts of Housing and Employment Uncertainty and Stability;160
8.1.4.1; Employment, Uncertainty and Mobility;160
8.1.4.2; Housing and Moving Home;162
8.1.4.3; Living Happily Without a Car;165
8.1.5;7.5 Uncertainty, Flexibility and Prospects for Reducing Travel by Car;167
8.1.6;Bibliography;170
8.2;8: The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction;173
8.2.1;8.1 Introduction;173
8.2.2;8.2 The Practice of Work and Its Implications for Travel to Work;176
8.2.3;8.3 Practices Within the Household and Their Implications for Travel to Work;182
8.2.4;8.4 Conclusion;186
8.2.5;Bibliography;187
8.3;9: Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life;190
8.3.1;9.1 Introduction;190
8.3.2;9.2 Study Design;193
8.3.3;9.3 Retirement as a Life Episode: Freedom and Self-Fulfilment;194
8.3.4;9.4 Physical Ageing Anticipated and Lived in Linear Time;197
8.3.5;9.5 Evolving Relationships and the Temporal (Re)distribution of Care;199
8.3.6;9.6 Discussion;202
8.3.7;Bibliography;204
9;Part 4: Tracing Trajectories;208
9.1;10: Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time-­Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand;212
9.1.1;10.1 Introduction;212
9.1.1.1; Changes in Social Practices and Energy Demand;213
9.1.1.2; Eating Practices and Energy Consumption;214
9.1.2;10.2 Analysis of Changes in Eating and Cooking Practices;216
9.1.2.1; Data and Methods;216
9.1.2.2; Analytic Approach;222
9.1.2.3; Lunch: Diversity and Evolutions of Time, Preparation and Place;223
9.1.2.4; Dinner: Diversity and Evolutions of Time, Preparation and Place;229
9.1.3;10.3 Discussion;230
9.1.3.1; Evolution in the Structure and Timing of Meals;230
9.1.3.2; Cooking at Home;232
9.1.3.3; Outsourcing Energy;233
9.1.4;10.4 Conclusions and Future Directions;233
9.1.5;Bibliography;235
9.2;11: Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time;239
9.2.1;11.1 Introduction;239
9.2.2;11.2 Considering Biography;242
9.2.2.1; Paths, Projects and Dialectics;242
9.2.2.2; Institutions, Lives and Domestic Practice;244
9.2.3;11.3 Researching Biographic Dynamics in Energy Demand;245
9.2.3.1; The Research Context;245
9.2.3.2; A Biographic, Practice-Orientated Methodology;246
9.2.4;11.4 Sample;247
9.2.5;11.5 Exploring the Intersections Between Lives, Institutions and Practice;248
9.2.5.1; Gender and Age Structured Practice Careers;248
9.2.6;11.6 Reproduction and Change in Routines and Practice;253
9.2.6.1; Billie’s Daily Path;253
9.2.6.2; Martha’s Daily Path;253
9.2.6.3; Biographic Pathways and Domestic Practice;254
9.2.7;11.7 Conclusion;258
9.2.8;Bibliography;260
9.3;12: Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice;263
9.3.1;12.1 Introduction;263
9.3.1.1; Conceptualising Demand for Business Travel;265
9.3.1.2; The Case and Approach;266
9.3.1.3; Business Practices and Travel Demand;268
9.3.2;12.2 Historical Changes to the Interweaving of Timespaces;271
9.3.3;12.3 How Timespaces Are Interwoven Today;274
9.3.4;12.4 Conclusion;276
9.3.5;Bibliography;279
10;Part 5: Shifting Rhythms;284
10.1;13: Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology;288
10.1.1;13.1 Introduction;288
10.1.2;13.2 Existing Approaches to Flexibility and Responsiveness and Their Limitations;290
10.1.3;13.3 Re-defining Flexibility and Responsiveness;292
10.1.4;13.4 Hotels as Sites of Demand Flexibility and Responsiveness;294
10.1.4.1; What Are the Typical Appliance and Service Loads of a Hotel?;295
10.1.5;13.5 Flexible Loads in Hotels;297
10.1.6;13.6 Responsive Loads in Hotels;300
10.1.6.1; To What Extent Can DSR Take Place Without Human Intervention?;302
10.1.7;13.7 Discussion and Conclusion;311
10.1.8;Bibliography;313
10.2;14: Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination;318
10.2.1;14.1 Introduction;318
10.2.2;14.2 What Do Hospitals Use Energy for?;320
10.2.3;14.3 How Hospital Life Is Organised (Temporally and in Other Ways);323
10.2.4;14.4 Changing Material Arrangements in Pathology;327
10.2.5;14.5 Flexible Professional Boundaries in Breast Cancer Services;331
10.2.6;14.6 Fixed Temporal Arrangements in Radiology;335
10.2.7;14.7 Conclusion;338
10.2.8;Bibliography;340
11;Part 6: Researching Demand;343
11.1;15: Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy;344
11.1.1;15.1 Methodological Priorities and Their Research Design Implications;345
11.1.2;15.2 Approaching Cases and Sampling;351
11.1.3;15.3 Conclusion;355
11.1.4;Bibliography;356
12;Index;358