Energy materiality: a conceptual review of multi-disciplinary approaches

Margarita Balmaceda; Per Högselius; Corey Johnson; Heiko  Pleines; Douglas  Rogers; Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.101220

Energy materiality: a conceptual review of multi-disciplinary approaches

Margarita Balmaceda, Per Högselius, Corey Johnson, Heiko Pleines, Douglas Rogers, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

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Abstract

This jointly authored essay reviews recent scholarship in the social sciences, broadly understood, that focuses on the materiality of energy. Although this work is extraordinarily diverse in its disciplinary and interdisciplinary influences and its theoretical and methodological commitments, we discern four areas of convergence and divergence that we term the locations, uses, relationalities, and analytical roles of energy materiality. We trace these convergences and divergences through five recent scholarly conversations: materiality as a constraint on actors’ behavior; historical energy systems; mobility, space and scale; discourse and power via energy materialities; and energy becoming material.

Original language	English
Article number	101220
Journal	Energy Research & Social Science
Volume	56
Number of pages	14
ISSN	2214-6296
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101220
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019
MoE publication type	A2 Review article in a scientific journal

Fields of Science

519 Social and economic geography

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