Video: David Tyfield and John Urry on Energy & Society

David Tyfield and John Urry introduce the Theory, Culture & Society Special Issue: ‘Energy & Society’

David Tyfield and John Urry introduce the TCS Special Issue on Energy & Society (TCS 31.5, Sep 2014) To access the contents of the issue, go here: http://tcs...

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TCS Special Issue: Energy & Society

Volume 31 Issue 5, September 2014

Edited by David Tyfield and John Urry

Contents

The Problem of Energy
John Urry

Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective
Frank W Geels

What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand
Elizabeth Shove and Gordon Walker

‘King Coal is Dead! Long Live the King!’: The Paradoxes of Coal’s Resurgence in the Emergence of Global Low-Carbon Societies
David Tyfield

The Political and Material Landscape of European Energy Distribution: Tracking the Oil Road
James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

The United States and Alternative Energies since 1980: Technological Fix or Regime Change?
David E Nye

Global Energy Cultures of Speed and Lightness: Materials, Mobilities and Transnational Power
Mimi Sheller

The Food-Energy-Climate Change Trilemma: Toward a Socio-Economic Analysis
Mark Harvey

Visioning a Sustainable Energy Future: The Case of Urban Food-Growing
Robert Biel

Combustion and Society: A Fire-Centred History of Energy Use
Nigel Clark and Kathryn Yusoff