Roxana Moroşanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxana Moroşanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxana |
| FAMILY NAME | Moroşanu |
| SIGNATURE | MOROSANU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1869-8115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK: Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage
This book challenges the ways we think about human agency by looking at the creativity, ethics, and capacities for social transformation that are embedded in simple actions of "doing". Stemming from e
An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK: Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage
Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK: Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage
How the Light Gets In: A Theoretical Framework for “Ordinary Agency”
A theoretical concept and approach for looking at human agency as embedded in everyday actions—“ordinary agency”—is introduced and discussed here. Recent anthropological re-readings and advancements of Foucault’s work on ethical practices are employed in the development of this approach. The ways in which “ordinary agency” responds to this work, as well as to social sciences of sustainability calls for acknowledging the forms of personal environm…
Anticipation and the Mother-Multiple
Here, the temporal modality of anticipation is introduced and discussed in relation to the concept of Mother-Multiple. As a mode of being that any family member can access when engaged in activities of caring oriented towards one’s “domestic others”—family members, pets, or the home itself as an entity—the Mother-Multiple ontological position is analytically situated in relation to literature on ontological multiplicity and a discussion of indivi…
Spontaneity
The concept of spontaneity as a mode of action and an approach to time is developed here. The ethnographic material focuses, specifically, on the ways in which digital media technologies are employed for immediately accomplishing momentary needs and desires. By drawing upon a reinterpretation of the Aristotelian concept of “practical truth” in British analytical philosophy, a theoretical framework for situating spontaneity is proposed. The ways i…
Making Multitemporality with Houses: Time Trickery, Ethical Practice and Energy Demand in Postcolonial Britain
The qualities of domestic buildings that are aimed for in the energy reduction agenda, such as efficiency and zero-carbon impacts, are often at odds with the aesthetic preferences of home-owners for keeping original features of their houses unaltered. The set of visual traits followed in the maintenance and listing of character houses in the UK, and their corresponding material affordances in relation to energy demand, can be regarded as affectin…
Off the grid: Re-Assembling Domestic Life
Off the Grid is an ambitious multi-media project comprising a book, companion website, and film. Taken together, these three narrative forms offer an ethnographic description and interrogation of w
Time-Tricking: A General Introduction
This general introduction presents the term that is the theme of this Special Section: ‘time-tricking’. Whilst initially mapping a few problems and perspectives that arise from it, we focus particularly on the question of temporal agency. We claim that the concept of time-tricking allows a reconsideration of temporal agency, and then set out how the articles that make up this Special Section contribute to this reconsideration. We will see that tw…
Researching in atmospheres: Video and the ‘Feel’ of the Mundane
In this article, the authors advance recent discussions of atmospheres by developing an approach that builds theory in relation to methodological understandings of how and what we can we know about atmospheres. They argue that, in order to be able to understand the significance of an atmosphere empirically, a theory is needed that can account for the specificities of particular atmospheres that are generated in the context of actual research site…
Hanging out at home: Laundry as a thread and texture of everyday life
Laundry, one of the most mundane but most fundamental everyday life activities, has received little attention in cultural studies of everyday life. In contrast it has attracted the analytical attention of sociologists of everyday practices and social relations, and energy and health researchers. Here we suggest that an approach which attends to theoretical turns towards phenomenology, spatiality and materiality can offer a new interpretation of t…
Time-Tricking: A General Introduction
This general introduction presents the term that is the theme of this Special Section: ‘time-tricking’. Whilst initially mapping a few problems and perspectives that arise from it, we focus particularly on the question of temporal agency. We claim that the concept of time-tricking allows a reconsideration of temporal agency, and then set out how the articles that make up this Special Section contribute to this reconsideration. We will see that tw…
Researching in atmospheres: Video and the ‘Feel’ of the Mundane
In this article, the authors advance recent discussions of atmospheres by developing an approach that builds theory in relation to methodological understandings of how and what we can we know about atmospheres. They argue that, in order to be able to understand the significance of an atmosphere empirically, a theory is needed that can account for the specificities of particular atmospheres that are generated in the context of actual research site…
Hanging out at home: Laundry as a thread and texture of everyday life
Laundry, one of the most mundane but most fundamental everyday life activities, has received little attention in cultural studies of everyday life. In contrast it has attracted the analytical attention of sociologists of everyday practices and social relations, and energy and health researchers. Here we suggest that an approach which attends to theoretical turns towards phenomenology, spatiality and materiality can offer a new interpretation of t…
Hanging out at home: Laundry as a thread and texture of everyday life
Laundry, one of the most mundane but most fundamental everyday life activities, has received little attention in cultural studies of everyday life. In contrast it has attracted the analytical attention of sociologists of everyday practices and social relations, and energy and health researchers. Here we suggest that an approach which attends to theoretical turns towards phenomenology, spatiality and materiality can offer a new interpretation of t…
Researching in atmospheres: Video and the ‘Feel’ of the Mundane
In this article, the authors advance recent discussions of atmospheres by developing an approach that builds theory in relation to methodological understandings of how and what we can we know about atmospheres. They argue that, in order to be able to understand the significance of an atmosphere empirically, a theory is needed that can account for the specificities of particular atmospheres that are generated in the context of actual research site…
An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK: Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage
This book challenges the ways we think about human agency by looking at the creativity, ethics, and capacities for social transformation that are embedded in simple actions of "doing". Stemming from e
An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK: Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage
Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK: Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage
How the Light Gets In: A Theoretical Framework for “Ordinary Agency”
A theoretical concept and approach for looking at human agency as embedded in everyday actions—“ordinary agency”—is introduced and discussed here. Recent anthropological re-readings and advancements of Foucault’s work on ethical practices are employed in the development of this approach. The ways in which “ordinary agency” responds to this work, as well as to social sciences of sustainability calls for acknowledging the forms of personal environm…
Anticipation and the Mother-Multiple
Here, the temporal modality of anticipation is introduced and discussed in relation to the concept of Mother-Multiple. As a mode of being that any family member can access when engaged in activities of caring oriented towards one’s “domestic others”—family members, pets, or the home itself as an entity—the Mother-Multiple ontological position is analytically situated in relation to literature on ontological multiplicity and a discussion of indivi…
Spontaneity
The concept of spontaneity as a mode of action and an approach to time is developed here. The ethnographic material focuses, specifically, on the ways in which digital media technologies are employed for immediately accomplishing momentary needs and desires. By drawing upon a reinterpretation of the Aristotelian concept of “practical truth” in British analytical philosophy, a theoretical framework for situating spontaneity is proposed. The ways i…
Making Multitemporality with Houses: Time Trickery, Ethical Practice and Energy Demand in Postcolonial Britain
The qualities of domestic buildings that are aimed for in the energy reduction agenda, such as efficiency and zero-carbon impacts, are often at odds with the aesthetic preferences of home-owners for keeping original features of their houses unaltered. The set of visual traits followed in the maintenance and listing of character houses in the UK, and their corresponding material affordances in relation to energy demand, can be regarded as affectin…
Off the grid: Re-Assembling Domestic Life
Off the Grid is an ambitious multi-media project comprising a book, companion website, and film. Taken together, these three narrative forms offer an ethnographic description and interrogation of w
Time-Tricking: A General Introduction
This general introduction presents the term that is the theme of this Special Section: ‘time-tricking’. Whilst initially mapping a few problems and perspectives that arise from it, we focus particularly on the question of temporal agency. We claim that the concept of time-tricking allows a reconsideration of temporal agency, and then set out how the articles that make up this Special Section contribute to this reconsideration. We will see that tw…
Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)