C Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 34968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7816-2689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The power behind the prompt: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and the United States Electricity Grid
The launch of multiple new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms seems set to radically transform the ways that people work and live around the globe. Yet behind each prompt and query entered into GenAI are thousands of data centers that devour energy at a rate that – if forecasts are to be believed – will transform electricity grids around the world. This Perspectives article provides a view into the rapidly evolving world of GenA…
Energy transitions, settler colonialism, and the politics of place
Picking up the slack: Faith-based organizations, informal support networks and energy insecurity, poverty, and vulnerability in the southeastern United States
Trump and the US energy transition
The US electricity grid has seen a rapid increase in the amount of renewable energy over the last decade, with many renewable advocates viewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 as the catalyst to move the grid towards 100% clean energy. The 2024 elections, however, have significantly muddied the path. In this commentary, I posit what the Trump administration—and related Republican control of both houses of the US Congress—means for the US elec…
“Why Change?” Monopoly and Competition in the Southeastern U.S. Electricity System
Although much of the U.S. electricity system moved to deregulated markets in the late 1990s, states in the southeastern United States—home to the nation’s largest, most valuable, and most polluting utilities—chose to retain regulated monopolies. In this article, we draw on interviews with regulators, environmental organizations, lobbyists, and utility executives to examine how utilities in the southeastern United States have maintained their posi…
Understanding public attitudes to death talk and advance care planning in Northern Ireland using health behaviour change theory: A qualitative study
This study contributes to a small but emergent research area examining barriers and facilitators to talking about death and dying. Findings from this study can be used to inform new public health programmes towards empowering adults to have these conversations with others in their community towards upstreaming advance care planning
Electricity capital and accumulation strategies in the U.S. electricity system
The U.S. electricity sector has undergone a series of technological and political economic transformations between 1995 and 2020. Some, but not all, states have moved toward the provision of electricity through wholesale electricity markets, while others have remained traditionally regulated. In addition, electricity is increasingly generated from natural gas and renewable energy, and while total electricity consumption is stagnant in the United …
The states that opted out: Politics, power, and exceptionalism in the quest for electricity deregulation in the United States South
Wipe out the entire slum area’: University-led urban renewal in Columbia, South Carolina, 1950–1985
Reassembling Caribbean Energy? Petrocaribe, (Post-)Plantation Sovereignty, and Caribbean Energy Futures
In this paper, we probe the possibilities and limits of Petrocaribe, a Venezuelan-led oil alliance that has shaped energy and development initiatives in the Caribbean basin since the mid 2000s, as well as U.S. responses to the program. Drawing from a range of sources, including interviews with regional actors and leaked diplomatic cables from Wikileaks, we describe some of the contours of these competing regional energy assemblages, and analyze h…
Geographies of renewable energy transition in the Caribbean: Reshaping the island energy metabolism
Introduction: Teaching energy geographies
In his introduction to the 2011 special issue on energy of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Karl Zimmerer argues that “Geography is central to understanding and addressing the
Race, Space, and Electric Power: Jim Crow and the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey
Some scholars have recently put forward the concept of energopower—the harnessing of electricity and fuel—as a way to rethink the energetic basis of biopower. In this article, I refine this idea by tracing the use of race in rural electrification planning in North Carolina during the New Deal 1930s. Drawing on archival fieldwork that examines and reconstructs the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey, I chart the ways in which race was…
Improving energy literacy through student-led fieldwork – at home
“Energy literacy” is of great interest to those researching sustainable consumption, particularly with regard to its relationship to domestic energy use. This paper reflects on the pedagogic aspects of fieldwork recently carried out by undergraduate geography students in their own homes to assess energy-related technologies and practices, and how these come together into a singular, aggregated number produced by the energy meter. Conceptualising …
Extending the 'White Way: Municipal Streetlighting and Race, 1900-1930
While the illumination of streets by electric streetlights in Western cities is a given today, in the early part of the twentieth century it was a technology whose conspicuous consumption was a status symbol for both individuals and towns. Not long after its introduction, however, electric lighting in cities also became noticeable in its absence. This paper draws on municipal records to consider how ideologies of white supremacy and progress came…
Accomplished by methods which are indefensible’: Electric utilities, finance, and the natural barriers to accumulation
Because You Got to Have Heat”: The Networked Assemblage of Energy Poverty in Eastern North Carolina
Current discussions of energy policy seldom acknowledge the problem of energy poverty, a situation in which a household cannot afford to adequately heat or cool the home. In this article, we examine the concept of energy poverty and describe some of its contours in a rural part of North Carolina. Energy poverty, we suggest, is best viewed as a geographical assemblage of networked materialities and socioeconomic relations. To illustrate this appro…
Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History
Hannu Salmi proposes a history of nineteenth-century Europe that differs significantly from most textbook presentations; this account of the making of modern Europe does not rely on the familiar chronology of nation-building. Its turning points are the opening of department stores and invention of the cinema, not the unification of Germany or even the invention of the water frame. Both national character and industrialisation appear as themes, bu…
Les Salons de Lille de l'Ancien Regime a la Restauration 1773-1820
Historians are greatly indebted to Pierre Sanchez and to his erstwhile partner, Xavier Seydoux, who have published and in many cases themselves edited the raw material from which the history of French art can be written. Their dictionaries of contributors to the main exhibition venues in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are invaluable, as are their catalogues of some of the leading printmakers, either newly compiled or reissued from the ni…
Les Freres Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins; Fragonard et le dessin francais du XVIIIe Siecle dans les collections du Petit Palais
An eclectic and historicizing Post-Modern Winckelmannesque invention redelineating the wish-fulfilment and narcissistic self-imagery inherent in the idealizing morphology and meanings of Classical revivals This froth is not worthy of the important contribution Howard has made to our understanding of the eighteenth-century classical tradition.
The Analysis of Geographical Data
Because You Got to Have Heat”: The Networked Assemblage of Energy Poverty in Eastern North Carolina
Current discussions of energy policy seldom acknowledge the problem of energy poverty, a situation in which a household cannot afford to adequately heat or cool the home. In this article, we examine the concept of energy poverty and describe some of its contours in a rural part of North Carolina. Energy poverty, we suggest, is best viewed as a geographical assemblage of networked materialities and socioeconomic relations. To illustrate this appro…
Accomplished by methods which are indefensible’: Electric utilities, finance, and the natural barriers to accumulation
Electricity capital and accumulation strategies in the U.S. electricity system
The U.S. electricity sector has undergone a series of technological and political economic transformations between 1995 and 2020. Some, but not all, states have moved toward the provision of electricity through wholesale electricity markets, while others have remained traditionally regulated. In addition, electricity is increasingly generated from natural gas and renewable energy, and while total electricity consumption is stagnant in the United …
Geographies of renewable energy transition in the Caribbean: Reshaping the island energy metabolism
The states that opted out: Politics, power, and exceptionalism in the quest for electricity deregulation in the United States South
Race, Space, and Electric Power: Jim Crow and the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey
Some scholars have recently put forward the concept of energopower—the harnessing of electricity and fuel—as a way to rethink the energetic basis of biopower. In this article, I refine this idea by tracing the use of race in rural electrification planning in North Carolina during the New Deal 1930s. Drawing on archival fieldwork that examines and reconstructs the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey, I chart the ways in which race was…
Reassembling Caribbean Energy? Petrocaribe, (Post-)Plantation Sovereignty, and Caribbean Energy Futures
In this paper, we probe the possibilities and limits of Petrocaribe, a Venezuelan-led oil alliance that has shaped energy and development initiatives in the Caribbean basin since the mid 2000s, as well as U.S. responses to the program. Drawing from a range of sources, including interviews with regional actors and leaked diplomatic cables from Wikileaks, we describe some of the contours of these competing regional energy assemblages, and analyze h…
Wipe out the entire slum area’: University-led urban renewal in Columbia, South Carolina, 1950–1985
Improving energy literacy through student-led fieldwork – at home
“Energy literacy” is of great interest to those researching sustainable consumption, particularly with regard to its relationship to domestic energy use. This paper reflects on the pedagogic aspects of fieldwork recently carried out by undergraduate geography students in their own homes to assess energy-related technologies and practices, and how these come together into a singular, aggregated number produced by the energy meter. Conceptualising …
Trump and the US energy transition
The US electricity grid has seen a rapid increase in the amount of renewable energy over the last decade, with many renewable advocates viewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 as the catalyst to move the grid towards 100% clean energy. The 2024 elections, however, have significantly muddied the path. In this commentary, I posit what the Trump administration—and related Republican control of both houses of the US Congress—means for the US elec…
Introduction: Teaching energy geographies
In his introduction to the 2011 special issue on energy of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Karl Zimmerer argues that “Geography is central to understanding and addressing the
Extending the 'White Way: Municipal Streetlighting and Race, 1900-1930
While the illumination of streets by electric streetlights in Western cities is a given today, in the early part of the twentieth century it was a technology whose conspicuous consumption was a status symbol for both individuals and towns. Not long after its introduction, however, electric lighting in cities also became noticeable in its absence. This paper draws on municipal records to consider how ideologies of white supremacy and progress came…
The Analysis of Geographical Data
Les Freres Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins; Fragonard et le dessin francais du XVIIIe Siecle dans les collections du Petit Palais
An eclectic and historicizing Post-Modern Winckelmannesque invention redelineating the wish-fulfilment and narcissistic self-imagery inherent in the idealizing morphology and meanings of Classical revivals This froth is not worthy of the important contribution Howard has made to our understanding of the eighteenth-century classical tradition.
Les Salons de Lille de l'Ancien Regime a la Restauration 1773-1820
Historians are greatly indebted to Pierre Sanchez and to his erstwhile partner, Xavier Seydoux, who have published and in many cases themselves edited the raw material from which the history of French art can be written. Their dictionaries of contributors to the main exhibition venues in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are invaluable, as are their catalogues of some of the leading printmakers, either newly compiled or reissued from the ni…
Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History
Hannu Salmi proposes a history of nineteenth-century Europe that differs significantly from most textbook presentations; this account of the making of modern Europe does not rely on the familiar chronology of nation-building. Its turning points are the opening of department stores and invention of the cinema, not the unification of Germany or even the invention of the water frame. Both national character and industrialisation appear as themes, bu…
Because You Got to Have Heat”: The Networked Assemblage of Energy Poverty in Eastern North Carolina
Current discussions of energy policy seldom acknowledge the problem of energy poverty, a situation in which a household cannot afford to adequately heat or cool the home. In this article, we examine the concept of energy poverty and describe some of its contours in a rural part of North Carolina. Energy poverty, we suggest, is best viewed as a geographical assemblage of networked materialities and socioeconomic relations. To illustrate this appro…
Accomplished by methods which are indefensible’: Electric utilities, finance, and the natural barriers to accumulation
Improving energy literacy through student-led fieldwork – at home
“Energy literacy” is of great interest to those researching sustainable consumption, particularly with regard to its relationship to domestic energy use. This paper reflects on the pedagogic aspects of fieldwork recently carried out by undergraduate geography students in their own homes to assess energy-related technologies and practices, and how these come together into a singular, aggregated number produced by the energy meter. Conceptualising …
Extending the 'White Way: Municipal Streetlighting and Race, 1900-1930
While the illumination of streets by electric streetlights in Western cities is a given today, in the early part of the twentieth century it was a technology whose conspicuous consumption was a status symbol for both individuals and towns. Not long after its introduction, however, electric lighting in cities also became noticeable in its absence. This paper draws on municipal records to consider how ideologies of white supremacy and progress came…
Introduction: Teaching energy geographies
In his introduction to the 2011 special issue on energy of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Karl Zimmerer argues that “Geography is central to understanding and addressing the
Race, Space, and Electric Power: Jim Crow and the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey
Some scholars have recently put forward the concept of energopower—the harnessing of electricity and fuel—as a way to rethink the energetic basis of biopower. In this article, I refine this idea by tracing the use of race in rural electrification planning in North Carolina during the New Deal 1930s. Drawing on archival fieldwork that examines and reconstructs the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey, I chart the ways in which race was…
Geographies of renewable energy transition in the Caribbean: Reshaping the island energy metabolism
Reassembling Caribbean Energy? Petrocaribe, (Post-)Plantation Sovereignty, and Caribbean Energy Futures
In this paper, we probe the possibilities and limits of Petrocaribe, a Venezuelan-led oil alliance that has shaped energy and development initiatives in the Caribbean basin since the mid 2000s, as well as U.S. responses to the program. Drawing from a range of sources, including interviews with regional actors and leaked diplomatic cables from Wikileaks, we describe some of the contours of these competing regional energy assemblages, and analyze h…
Wipe out the entire slum area’: University-led urban renewal in Columbia, South Carolina, 1950–1985
The states that opted out: Politics, power, and exceptionalism in the quest for electricity deregulation in the United States South
Understanding public attitudes to death talk and advance care planning in Northern Ireland using health behaviour change theory: A qualitative study
This study contributes to a small but emergent research area examining barriers and facilitators to talking about death and dying. Findings from this study can be used to inform new public health programmes towards empowering adults to have these conversations with others in their community towards upstreaming advance care planning
Electricity capital and accumulation strategies in the U.S. electricity system
The U.S. electricity sector has undergone a series of technological and political economic transformations between 1995 and 2020. Some, but not all, states have moved toward the provision of electricity through wholesale electricity markets, while others have remained traditionally regulated. In addition, electricity is increasingly generated from natural gas and renewable energy, and while total electricity consumption is stagnant in the United …
“Why Change?” Monopoly and Competition in the Southeastern U.S. Electricity System
Although much of the U.S. electricity system moved to deregulated markets in the late 1990s, states in the southeastern United States—home to the nation’s largest, most valuable, and most polluting utilities—chose to retain regulated monopolies. In this article, we draw on interviews with regulators, environmental organizations, lobbyists, and utility executives to examine how utilities in the southeastern United States have maintained their posi…
Picking up the slack: Faith-based organizations, informal support networks and energy insecurity, poverty, and vulnerability in the southeastern United States
Trump and the US energy transition
The US electricity grid has seen a rapid increase in the amount of renewable energy over the last decade, with many renewable advocates viewing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 as the catalyst to move the grid towards 100% clean energy. The 2024 elections, however, have significantly muddied the path. In this commentary, I posit what the Trump administration—and related Republican control of both houses of the US Congress—means for the US elec…
The power behind the prompt: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and the United States Electricity Grid
The launch of multiple new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms seems set to radically transform the ways that people work and live around the globe. Yet behind each prompt and query entered into GenAI are thousands of data centers that devour energy at a rate that – if forecasts are to be believed – will transform electricity grids around the world. This Perspectives article provides a view into the rapidly evolving world of GenA…
Energy transitions, settler colonialism, and the politics of place
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