Energy Possibilities: Rethinking Alternatives and the Choice-Making Proc: Rethinking Alternatives and the Choice-Making Process (Suny Series in Science, Technology, and Society) - Softcover

Tatum, Jesse S.

 
9780791425961: Energy Possibilities: Rethinking Alternatives and the Choice-Making Proc: Rethinking Alternatives and the Choice-Making Process (Suny Series in Science, Technology, and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791425967 ISBN 13: 9780791425961
Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Using the perspectives of science, technology, and society studies, this book grapples with questions stimulated by a concern that current energy policies and practices reflect neither the best interests of ordinary people nor decision-making consistent with the traditions and aspirations of democracy. Probing the depths of assumptions made in traditional analysis and assembling minority views, present practices come into focus as startlingly narrow social constructs amidst a vast unexplored terrain of material and socio-cultural possibilities. Questions of power and responsible action are pursued in this context, casting both traditional decision makers and citizens in less than a positive light. The author includes an examination of the experience of the "home power" movement not as "The Solution" to our energy problems, but as a concrete illustration of alternative theory and practice, and of the range of possibilities inherent in energy decisions. The book aims not at recommendations for prescriptive public policy, but primarily at refocusing the reader's attentions, as ultimate policy maker, on the core of the energy question: How do we wish to live in the world?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jesse S. Tatum is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Michigan Technological University.

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Using the perspectives of science, technology, and society studies, this book grapples with questions stimulated by a concern that current energy policies and practices reflect neither the best interests of ordinary people nor decision-making consistent with the traditions and aspirations of democracy. Probing the depths of assumptions made in traditional analysis and assembling minority views, present practices come into focus as startlingly narrow social constructs amidst a vast unexplored terrain of material and socio-cultural possibilities. Questions of power and responsible action are pursued in this context, casting both traditional decision makers and citizens in less than a positive light. The author includes an examination of the experience of the "home power" movement not as "The Solution" to our energy problems, but as a concrete illustration of alternative theory and practice, and of the range of possibilities inherent in energy decisions. The book aims not at recommendations for prescriptive public policy, but primarily at refocusing the reader's attentions, as ultimate policy maker, on the core of the energy question: How do we wish to live in the world?

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Verlag
State University of New York Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0791425967
ISBN 13 
9780791425961
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
182
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