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Demanding Energy - Space, Time and Change
Allison Hui, Rosie Day, Gordon Walker
Verlag Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN 9783319619910 , 364 Seiten
Format PDF, OL
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Preface
5
Contents
7
List of Figures
10
List of Tables
12
1: Demanding Energy: An Introduction
13
1.1 Space and Demanding Energy
18
1.2 Time and Demanding Energy
23
1.3 Change and Demanding Energy
27
1.4 The Book Structure
31
Bibliography
33
Part 1: Making Connections
39
2: Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures
43
2.1 Introduction: Charging Smartphone Batteries, Powering the Internet
43
2.2 Background: The Energy Infrastructures of Mobile, Digital Connectivity
45
2.3 Expectations of Constant Connectivity and Public Charging: An Amtrak Rail Journey
48
2.4 Data Centers and the Electricity Underlying Digital Connectivity
54
2.5 Conclusion
57
Bibliography
60
3: Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-In: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva’s More Affluent Households
63
3.1 Introduction
63
3.2 Concepts and Methodology
65
3.3 Research Findings
69
Material Lock-In: Appliances and Spaces
69
Social Lock-In: Social Acceptance and Pressures
74
Lock-In and the Un-locking of Normality Across Different Contexts and Cultures
76
3.4 Conclusions
78
Bibliography
81
4: Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and Their Energy Use Implications
84
4.1 Introduction
84
4.2 Organised Events and Temporariness
86
4.3 Characteristics of Temporariness
88
Temporal Features
88
Spatial Features
94
4.4 Conclusion
101
Bibliography
102
Part 2: Unpacking Meanings
105
5: Towards a ‘Meaning’-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability
109
5.1 Introduction
109
5.2 Temporalities, Mobilities and Sustainability
110
5.3 Towards a ‘Meaning’-ful Temporal Analysis of Mobility Practices
114
Traditional Temporal Dichotomies of Mobility Practices: The Case of the Dominant Car System
114
Challenging Traditional Temporal Dichotomies of Mobilities: Intersections of Temporalities, Practices and Materialities
117
Intersections of Temporalities: Changing Perceptions of Speed
118
Intersections of Practices: Changing Perceptions of Duration
120
Intersections of Materialities: Changing Perceptions of Rhythmicity
122
5.4 Temporalising Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability
124
Bibliography
126
6: Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces
130
6.1 Introduction
130
6.2 Inhabitance in Context and the Permeability of Spaces
132
6.3 Temporalities and the Multi-Functionality of Domestic Spaces
139
6.4 Conclusion
143
Bibliography
146
Part 3: Situating Agency
149
7: The Car as a Safety-Net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty
153
7.1 Introduction
153
7.2 Choice and Context
156
7.3 The Study
158
7.4 Findings: Mobility Needs in the Contexts of Housing and Employment Uncertainty and Stability
160
Employment, Uncertainty and Mobility
160
Housing and Moving Home
162
Living Happily Without a Car
165
7.5 Uncertainty, Flexibility and Prospects for Reducing Travel by Car
167
Bibliography
170
8: The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction
173
8.1 Introduction
173
8.2 The Practice of Work and Its Implications for Travel to Work
176
8.3 Practices Within the Household and Their Implications for Travel to Work
182
8.4 Conclusion
186
Bibliography
187
9: Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life
190
9.1 Introduction
190
9.2 Study Design
193
9.3 Retirement as a Life Episode: Freedom and Self-Fulfilment
194
9.4 Physical Ageing Anticipated and Lived in Linear Time
197
9.5 Evolving Relationships and the Temporal (Re)distribution of Care
199
9.6 Discussion
202
Bibliography
204
Part 4: Tracing Trajectories
208
10: Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time-Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand
212
10.1 Introduction
212
Changes in Social Practices and Energy Demand
213
Eating Practices and Energy Consumption
214
10.2 Analysis of Changes in Eating and Cooking Practices
216
Data and Methods
216
Analytic Approach
222
Lunch: Diversity and Evolutions of Time, Preparation and Place
223
Dinner: Diversity and Evolutions of Time, Preparation and Place
229
10.3 Discussion
230
Evolution in the Structure and Timing of Meals
230
Cooking at Home
232
Outsourcing Energy
233
10.4 Conclusions and Future Directions
233
Bibliography
235
11: Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time
239
11.1 Introduction
239
11.2 Considering Biography
242
Paths, Projects and Dialectics
242
Institutions, Lives and Domestic Practice
244
11.3 Researching Biographic Dynamics in Energy Demand
245
The Research Context
245
A Biographic, Practice-Orientated Methodology
246
11.4 Sample
247
11.5 Exploring the Intersections Between Lives, Institutions and Practice
248
Gender and Age Structured Practice Careers
248
11.6 Reproduction and Change in Routines and Practice
253
Billie’s Daily Path
253
Martha’s Daily Path
253
Biographic Pathways and Domestic Practice
254
11.7 Conclusion
258
Bibliography
260
12: Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice
263
12.1 Introduction
263
Conceptualising Demand for Business Travel
265
The Case and Approach
266
Business Practices and Travel Demand
268
12.2 Historical Changes to the Interweaving of Timespaces
271
12.3 How Timespaces Are Interwoven Today
274
12.4 Conclusion
276
Bibliography
279
Part 5: Shifting Rhythms
284
13: Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology
288
13.1 Introduction
288
13.2 Existing Approaches to Flexibility and Responsiveness and Their Limitations
290
13.3 Re-defining Flexibility and Responsiveness
292
13.4 Hotels as Sites of Demand Flexibility and Responsiveness
294
What Are the Typical Appliance and Service Loads of a Hotel?
295
13.5 Flexible Loads in Hotels
297
13.6 Responsive Loads in Hotels
300
To What Extent Can DSR Take Place Without Human Intervention?
302
13.7 Discussion and Conclusion
311
Bibliography
313
14: Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination
318
14.1 Introduction
318
14.2 What Do Hospitals Use Energy for?
320
14.3 How Hospital Life Is Organised (Temporally and in Other Ways)
323
14.4 Changing Material Arrangements in Pathology
327
14.5 Flexible Professional Boundaries in Breast Cancer Services
331
14.6 Fixed Temporal Arrangements in Radiology
335
14.7 Conclusion
338
Bibliography
340
Part 6: Researching Demand
343
15: Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy
344
15.1 Methodological Priorities and Their Research Design Implications
345
15.2 Approaching Cases and Sampling
351
15.3 Conclusion
355
Bibliography
356
Index
358