| Title | An energy experiment |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Tests, trials and ElectroTrumps |
| Contributor | Jamie Cross(author) |
| Simone Almond Abram(author) | |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Jamie Cross, Simone Abram |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2021-05-01 |
| Page range | pp. 152–193 |
| Language | English (Original) |
Jamie Cross is Professor of Social and Economic Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India (Pluto Press, 2014) His writing on the social and material politics of off grid solar energy in places of chronic poverty has been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Limn, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association, Ethnos and The Guardian. His collabora- tions with designers, visual artists, and filmmakers include: Solar What?! (an award winning, fully repairable, open source solar powered lighting and charging device); the Off Grid Solar Scorecard (a public platform to track sustainable design in the solar industry); and The Solar Fix (a short film about solar things in need of repair).
Simone Abram is Professor in Anthropology at Durham University, and co-director of the Durham Energy Institute. She was a co-investigator at the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration from 2016–2021, and from 2020 is a co-investigator at the Research Centre for Inclusive Decarbonisation led by Tanja Winther at Oslo University. Relevant recent publications include Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures (Bloomsbury, with Brit Ross Winthereik and Thomas Yarrow), Our Lives with Electric Things (in Cultural Anthropology, with Jamie Cross, Lea Schick and Mike Anusas) and Ethnographies of Power (Berghahn, with Tristan Loloum and Nathalie Ortar).