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Introduction: The Time We Have–The Time We Make

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An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK

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Here, Moroşanu introduces her research and situates the theoretical take of the book in relation to the anthropology of energy and social sciences of sustainability literatures. She identifies two interrelated calls—fora reconceptualization of human agency and for new approaches to time—and shows the ways in which the monograph will respond to both. She then looks at the context of the research, focusing on: the interdisciplinary academic framework as well as research funding related to climate change policy in the UK, a set of cultural ideas about the concept of family, and the temporal frameworks and approaches to time that family participants employed in their everyday lives.

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Moroşanu, R. (2016). Introduction: The Time We Have–The Time We Make. In: An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59341-2_1

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