Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

The book "Energy Futures" critically examines the challenges and opportunities of our energy future, proposing a new critical and interventional futures-oriented energy anthropology to disrupt dominant narratives and mobilize new knowledge about imagined and possible energy futures.

Format: Hardback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2022
Publisher: De Gruyter

The way we live our daily lives is being profoundly impacted by a convergence of climate, social, health, and political crises. As emerging technologies, data analytics, and automation continue to advance, they present us with exciting opportunities to revolutionize the way we generate, store, and consume energy. However, the traditional approaches to this problem, driven by engineering, data analytics, and capital, are deeply entrenched and risk perpetuating the status quo.
Energy Futures is a groundbreaking book that takes a critical look at this complex landscape and the various stakeholders and politics that shape it. It proposes plausible, responsible, and ethical modes of engaging with potential energy futures, drawing on the insights and methodologies of energy anthropology. By combining the theories and methods of futures anthropology with the critical expertise and perspectives of energy anthropology, the book creates a powerful mode of engagement that is necessary to disrupt the dominant narratives about our energy future.
Through innovative ethnographic practices, including remote video, comic strip methods, documentary video practice, and long-term fieldwork, the book's contributors collectively reveal and evidence how new knowledge about imagined and possible energy futures can be mobilized in engagements with emerging technologies, anthropocene challenges, and everyday realities.
By bringing together authors, analytical expertise, and ethnographic evidence from diverse global locations, Energy Futures offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on the future of energy. It challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of traditional thinking and to explore new and innovative solutions to the complex energy challenges we face today.
In conclusion, Energy Futures is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of energy, sustainability, and social change. It provides a valuable roadmap for navigating the complex and rapidly evolving energy landscape and offers a vision for a more sustainable and equitable future.

Weight: 464g
Dimension: 161 x 234 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783110745627