Demanding Energy - Space, Time and Change

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1: Demanding Energy: An Introduction

1.1 Space and Demanding Energy

1.2 Time and Demanding Energy

1.3 Change and Demanding Energy

1.4 The Book Structure

Bibliography

Part 1: Making Connections

2: Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures

2.1 Introduction: Charging Smartphone Batteries, Powering the Internet

2.2 Background: The Energy Infrastructures of Mobile, Digital Connectivity

2.3 Expectations of Constant Connectivity and Public Charging: An Amtrak Rail Journey

2.4 Data Centers and the Electricity Underlying Digital Connectivity

2.5 Conclusion

Bibliography

3: Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-In: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva’s More Affluent Households

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Concepts and Methodology

3.3 Research Findings

Material Lock-In: Appliances and Spaces

Social Lock-In: Social Acceptance and Pressures

Lock-In and the Un-locking of Normality Across Different Contexts and Cultures

3.4 Conclusions

Bibliography

4: Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and Their Energy Use Implications

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Organised Events and Temporariness

4.3 Characteristics of Temporariness

Temporal Features

Spatial Features

4.4 Conclusion

Bibliography

Part 2: Unpacking Meanings

5: Towards a ‘Meaning’-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Temporalities, Mobilities and Sustainability

5.3 Towards a ‘Meaning’-ful Temporal Analysis of Mobility Practices

Traditional Temporal Dichotomies of Mobility Practices: The Case of the Dominant Car System

Challenging Traditional Temporal Dichotomies of Mobilities: Intersections of Temporalities, Practices and Materialities

Intersections of Temporalities: Changing Perceptions of Speed

Intersections of Practices: Changing Perceptions of Duration

Intersections of Materialities: Changing Perceptions of Rhythmicity

5.4 Temporalising Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability

Bibliography

6: Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Inhabitance in Context and the Permeability of Spaces

6.3 Temporalities and the Multi-Functionality of Domestic Spaces

6.4 Conclusion

Bibliography

Part 3: Situating Agency

7: The Car as a Safety-Net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Choice and Context

7.3 The Study

7.4 Findings: Mobility Needs in the Contexts of Housing and Employment Uncertainty and Stability

Employment, Uncertainty and Mobility

Housing and Moving Home

Living Happily Without a Car

7.5 Uncertainty, Flexibility and Prospects for Reducing Travel by Car

Bibliography

8: The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The Practice of Work and Its Implications for Travel to Work

8.3 Practices Within the Household and Their Implications for Travel to Work

8.4 Conclusion

Bibliography

9: Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Study Design

9.3 Retirement as a Life Episode: Freedom and Self-Fulfilment

9.4 Physical Ageing Anticipated and Lived in Linear Time

9.5 Evolving Relationships and the Temporal (Re)distribution of Care

9.6 Discussion

Bibliography

Part 4: Tracing Trajectories

10: Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time-­Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand

10.1 Introduction

Changes in Social Practices and Energy Demand

Eating Practices and Energy Consumption

10.2 Analysis of Changes in Eating and Cooking Practices

Data and Methods

Analytic Approach

Lunch: Diversity and Evolutions of Time, Preparation and Place

Dinner: Diversity and Evolutions of Time, Preparation and Place

10.3 Discussion

Evolution in the Structure and Timing of Meals

Cooking at Home

Outsourcing Energy

10.4 Conclusions and Future Directions

Bibliography

11: Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Considering Biography

Paths, Projects and Dialectics

Institutions, Lives and Domestic Practice

11.3 Researching Biographic Dynamics in Energy Demand

The Research Context

A Biographic, Practice-Orientated Methodology

11.4 Sample

11.5 Exploring the Intersections Between Lives, Institutions and Practice

Gender and Age Structured Practice Careers

11.6 Reproduction and Change in Routines and Practice

Billie’s Daily Path

Martha’s Daily Path

Biographic Pathways and Domestic Practice

11.7 Conclusion

Bibliography

12: Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice

12.1 Introduction

Conceptualising Demand for Business Travel

The Case and Approach

Business Practices and Travel Demand

12.2 Historical Changes to the Interweaving of Timespaces

12.3 How Timespaces Are Interwoven Today

12.4 Conclusion

Bibliography

Part 5: Shifting Rhythms

13: Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Existing Approaches to Flexibility and Responsiveness and Their Limitations

13.3 Re-defining Flexibility and Responsiveness

13.4 Hotels as Sites of Demand Flexibility and Responsiveness

What Are the Typical Appliance and Service Loads of a Hotel?

13.5 Flexible Loads in Hotels

13.6 Responsive Loads in Hotels

To What Extent Can DSR Take Place Without Human Intervention?

13.7 Discussion and Conclusion

Bibliography

14: Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination

14.1 Introduction

14.2 What Do Hospitals Use Energy for?

14.3 How Hospital Life Is Organised (Temporally and in Other Ways)

14.4 Changing Material Arrangements in Pathology

14.5 Flexible Professional Boundaries in Breast Cancer Services

14.6 Fixed Temporal Arrangements in Radiology

14.7 Conclusion

Bibliography

Part 6: Researching Demand

15: Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy

15.1 Methodological Priorities and Their Research Design Implications

15.2 Approaching Cases and Sampling

15.3 Conclusion

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Index