Energy Issues in Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22370565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Henfrey (University of Lisbon, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1962 |
| OpenAlex | W2942982777 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Although central to all aspects of social life, energy is largely a neglected area in most areas of anthropology, ecological anthropology aside. Anthropological contributions to wider debates on energy, development, and social change are also rather marginal, despite the unique insights anthropological theory and method can provide. With energy at the heart of many crucial global debates today, and in particular the urgent need to adopt trajectories toward a zero‐carbon global society in order to mitigate climate change, new perspectives that can help inform planned changes in human relationships with energy—and negotiate unplanned changes—are vital. Such perspectives can come from a range of anthropological fields. In many of these, anthropologists and other social researchers have abandoned pretensions of detachment and objectivity in order to make significant contributions to informing, shaping, and mobilizing social movements dedicated to creating low‐energy and zero‐carbon postindustrial societies
Climate change · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Negotiation · Political science · Post-industrial society · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Energy and Environment Impacts · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |