Economy Electric
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2435546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Canay Özden‐schilling (0000-0002-3440-309X, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Canay Özden-Schilling |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 578-588 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360 |
| Publisher | American Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14506/ca30.4.06 |
| OpenAlex | W4236374991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 9 |
An electrical engineering doctoral student studying the electric grid once told me, "The point of all we do is to better match supply and demand."This came as a surprise given that, today, discussions surrounding the grid typically focus on the integration of renewable energy and communication technologies.From U.S. Department of Energy publications to electric utilities' advertisements, this theme frames discussions of the smart grid-a term that denotes a digitalized, more robust grid structured by automated sensing technologies.Matching supply and demand, on the other hand, sounds like it belongs in an economics textbook: it is, after all, a task assigned to markets in many variants of economics, perhaps most famously in the work of Friedrich Hayek.I was also intrigued by the qualification in the student's statement: better match, which suggested that matching was a permanent agenda-matching ever better.Could the balance of supply and demand not be simply left to buyers and sellers to work out amongst themselves, as Hayek had envisaged?Why did this researcher think that an objective famously attributed to markets constituted her field's raison d'e ˆtre
Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorising and Research
An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field
Making the energy connection
Joint Conclusion to Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Careers and climates
Electrical energy infrastructure and social worlds
Thermotemporalities, thermomasculinities
Decolonizing energy
Petromyopia
The anti-politics of smart energy regimes
New Perspectives on Energy
Introduction
Boom to bust, ashes to (coal) dust
To Transact and Shimmer
How to kill a powerline
Electricity as (Big) Data
Introduction
How Engineers Make Markets Organizing Electricity System Decarbonization
Head-hunters and knowledge-gatherers
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |