Reading Group: 17 December 2013
On 17 December a group of us – Richard, Jan, Guilio, Alison, Elizabeth, Neil and Gordon – discussed Missing carbon reductions? Exploring rebound and backfire effects in UK households by Angela Druckman...
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Our reading group discussed: “Understanding attitudes towards leisure travel and the constraints faced by senior Koreans” by Sun Hee Lee & Carmen Tideswell, Journal of Vacation Marketing 2005 11:...
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Jan, Mike A., Joe, Nicola and Elizabeth – Richard in a noisy café for a few moments. Jan used the reading (Military emissions, armed conflicts, border changes and the Kyoto Protocol by Axel Michaelowa...
View ArticleReading Group: 6 May 2014
A group of ten DEMANDers discussed Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices by Dale Southerton (Time & Society 2013...
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The Group discussed ‘Accomplished by methods which are indefensible’: Electric utilities, finance, and the natural barriers to accumulation, Geoforum 49 (2013) 173–183, by Conor Harrison and for this...
View ArticleReading Group: 22 July 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...
View ArticleReading Group: 14 October 2014
Elizabeth Shove, Matt Watson and Nicola Spurling discussed the draft article for the European Journal of Social Theory, special issue on climate change.
View ArticleReading Group: 25 November 2014
Gordon Walker presented material from the Paris and Taiwan workshops bringing together the outcomes from Project 4.1: The right to energy: ambivalent, contingent, problematic. An experiment in bringing...
View ArticleReading Group: 9 November 2014
Discussion of draft of Theme 1 Paper currently called ‘Joining up the Kilowatts’ – looking at how energy is defined and understood in different fields.
View ArticleReading Group: 24 February 2015
Discussion of draft paper by Giulio Mattioli & Jillian Anable, ‘Gross polluters for food shopping travel: a practice based typology’.
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