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Rhythm and Energy in Society

  • ISBN-13: 9781786613356
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.
  • By Gordon Walker
  • Price: AUD $196.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2021
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 232 pages Weight: 480g
  • Categories: Energy [PHDY]Geography [RG]
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Rhythms permeate our everyday lives: they animate our bodies, and structure our experience of day and night and the seasons, time patterns of work and leisure, and the temporal organisation of mundane routine activities. Rhythms are also intrinsically about flows of energy - heat, light, motion - that run through the world, from the smallest movements of muscles, to the petrol fuelled patterns of the rush hour, the spinning of wind turbines and shifting cycles of solar radiation. Energy and Rhythm in Society sets out to energise the rhythm in Lefebvre's 'Rhythmanalysis' in order to develop a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic theorisation and exemplification of our collective living with energy in its many natural and technological forms and flows. Through so doing, it also provides a distinctive understanding of the urgent challenges and possibilities of transforming future energy systems and energy uses into more just and lower carbon configurations.
Gordon Walker is professor in the Department of Geography and Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Energy and Rhythm Together Chapter 2 Rhythm and Rhythmanalysis: Interpretation and Foundation Chapter 3 Energetic Rhythms: Thermodynamics and Rhythmanalysis Chapter 4: Solar and Social Rhythms: Light, Heat and Polyrhythmic Change Chapter 5: Rhythms in Energy Systems: Grid Electricity and Big (Carbon) Power Chapter 6: Low Carbon Rhythms and Electricity Systems in Polyrhythmic Transition Chapter 7 Rhythms without Techno-energies: Bodies, Homes and Cities
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