Past and Present Energy Societies : How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures

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. With contributions by, among others, Karl-Michael Brunner, Helena Ekerholm and Mathias Mutz. Energy,Technology,Consumption,History,Culture,Science,History of Technology,History of the 20th Century,Environmental History,Sociology of Technology Inhalt Past and Present Energy Societies. How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures Cultural Representations of Energy Electrifying the World. Representations of Energy and Modern Life at World’s Fairs, 1893-1982 “We want to live electrically!” Marketing Strategies of German Power Companies in the 20th Century Filming Electrical Consumption. EDF’s Promotional Films (1946-2004) Energy Consumption Practices Managing Energy Consumption. The Rental Business for Storage Water Heaters of Berlin’s Electricity Company from the Late 1920s to the Early 1960s Saving Energy by Shifting Clocks? Energy Policy and the Introduction of Daylight Saving Time in East and West Germany Energy Consumption Practices and Social Inequality. The Case of Low-Income Households Societal Perceptions of Energy Resources Cultural Meanings of Wood Gas as Automobile Fuel in Sweden, 1930-1945 Missing Green in the Black Gold. Environment in the Public Debate on West Siberian Oil Production from the 1970s to the Present Publics in the Pipeline. On Bioenergy and its Imagined Publics in Norway and Sweden Patterns of Energy Transitions. The Long-Term Role of Energy in the Economic Growth of Europe Authors Figures and Tables

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.