Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Talk: Transitions and necessary energy: the need for electricity – electricity as a need. Neil Simcock, Rosie Day and Gordon Walker

Posted on July 29, 2014

Abstract for presentation at 2nd Energy & Society Conference, Krakow, 4-6 June 2014. (more…)

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Talk: How is energy implicated in a minimally decent life? Socio-technical change and social justice, Neil Simcock, Rosie Day and Gordon Walker

Posted on July 29, 2014

Abstract for presentation at the STS Conference, Graz, 5-6 May 2014. (more…)

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Reading Group: 22 July 2014

Posted on July 24, 2014

The Demand Reading Group met on 22 July read a selection of pages (1-17, 350-77) from "Hughes, Thomas P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1983. (more…)

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Summer School: Energy Histories and Energy Futures, 8-10 July 2014

Posted on July 23, 2014

The first DEMAND Summer School lived up to its name with fieldwork, floorball, evening meals and camping trips all taking place in the sunshine.  (more…)

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Back to normal? Demand in the aftermath of disruption. Heather Chappells. Incorporating space and time into energy research in the Southern United States. Conor Harrison

Posted on July 17, 2014

DEMAND Double Bill seminar from two DEMAND visitors: Heather’s talk focused on the relation between crisis and normality – in terms of energy demand.  She introduced a catalogue of questions about this relationship.   (more…)

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