Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting a paper to the Energy Anthropology Network panel at EASA2020. As convenors we aim to create a lively debate and to produce a publication from the contributions. We welcome empirical, theoretical or applied contributions and cross disciplinary perspectives.
Convenors: Dr Abhigyan Singh (TU Delft) & Dr Charlotte Johnson (UCL)
CfP DEADLINE 20th Jan https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8652
EASA2020: 21-24 July 2020 in Lisbon
Title: At the grid edge: homes, neighbourhoods and energy markets (Energy Anthropology Network)
Short description
Across Europe ‘the grid edge’, as instantiated in distributed, decentralised and off-grid energy systems, is emerging as a space for innovation and market experimentation. Our panel establishes it as a crucial site for anthropological inquiry and explores ways to both critique and intervene in it.
Abstract
Across Europe the grid edge has become a site of innovation, experimentation and legal exception. Extra-regulatory markets such as peer-to-peer energy trading are being trialled. Algorithms and control systems are being piloted to automate household appliances. Communities are becoming virtual power plants. The emerging distributed, decentralised, and off-grid energy systems profoundly challenge the universalist logic of national energy infrastructures and create an urgent role for anthropological knowledge.
Anthropologists are entering these spaces to critique and to intervene. They question the assumptions supporting energy market construction and bring attention to non-market perspectives. They interrogate the inter- and intra-household dynamics that are created and destabilised as new flows of energy interact with existing gender, class and power relations. They examine the ethics, moralities, and values that are implicated and invoked. They are working in interdisciplinary ways, using interventionist approaches and are challenging the creation of binaries that pit automation against human control.
In this panel we discuss this as a new horizon for anthropological inquiry. One that is provoked by the changing ways energy is being negotiated within homes, circulated through neighbourhoods, and getting entangled in local markets. We invite papers that critique ‘low carbon transition’, provide ethnographic accounts of energy, or that offer methodological innovations for collaborative, experimental or interdisciplinary working. We are particularly interested in the insights from global south contexts and its cross-cultural comparison with the ‘smart energy’ narrative in the global north. Overall, we invite broad critical engagement with the issues raised by doing anthropology at the grid edge.
Deadline for abstracts - 20th January
Submit here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8652
We look forward to hearing from you,
Charlotte Johnson & Abhigyan Singh
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