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Rhythms and patterns of daily life from 1950–2000: the changing qualities of energy demand

机译:从1950 - 2000年的日常生活节奏和日常生活模式:能源需求变化的质量

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Walker (2014) argues for the relevance of conceptual tools from the sociology of time for understanding the dynamics of energy consumption. This paper takes up this idea to analyse empirical data on Stevenage new town, focussing on how rhythms and patterns of daily life have changed since the 1950s (when the town was built), the role of institutions and infrastructures in shaping these rhythms, and their relationship to infrastructurein- use. The starting point is the idea that energy services (such as heating, lighting and moving around) are consumed to accomplish social practices (Shove and Walker, in press) and that the temporal patterning of these practices – their rhythm, synchronicity, periodicity and duration – is generative of patterns of demand. To provide an example, in his book ‘The Seven Day Circle’ Zerubavel (1985) shows how the week imposes a rhythmic beat at a societal scale on the ordering of work and leisure activities. Such orderings have inevitable effects on what energy is used for across the day and week, and related peaks and troughs in demand. At a broad level this is understood by energy companies who have knowledge about the desynchronised demands of their large industrial customers. Much less is known about the changing detail of daily life which constitutes rhythms and patterns of demand, the role of institutions and infrastructures in shaping when people do what they do, how such temporal arrangements are reproduced and transformed, and the implications of such rhythms for patterns of infrastructure- in-use. These are the concerns of this paper. Stevenage was the first new town to be built in England in the post war period. Originally a village of 6,000, the town was totally planned in the mid-late 1940s to accommodate a new population of 60,000. Drawing on archival research and oral history interviews with Stevenage residents, the paper provides a detailed account of the changing rhythms and patterns of everyday activity, and how institutions and infrastructures coconstitute these temporal arrangements. The paper concludes with initial reflections on the implications of this research for understanding how patterns of demand are constituted.
机译:Walker(2014)争论概念工具与理解能源消耗动态的社会学的相关性。本文占据了这个想法,分析了史蒂万令新城镇的经验数据,重点是自20世纪50年代以来的日常生活的节奏和模式如何发生变化,机构和基础设施在塑造这些节奏的作用以及它们的基础设施与基础设施的关系 - 使用。起点是消费能源服务(如加热,照明和移动)来实现社会实践(在媒体上,在压力机,在压力机)以及这些实践的时间图案化 - 它们的节奏,同步性,周期性和持续时间 - 是生成的需求模式。为了提供一个例子,在他的书中'七天圈'Zerubavel(1985)展示了本周在社会规模上对工作和休闲活动的排序产生节奏击败。这种排序对当天和周的能量以及需求相关的峰和低谷的能量不可避免地影响。在广泛的水平上,能源公司了解他们的大型工业客户的去同步需求。关于变化的日常生活细节,构成节奏和需求模式,机构和基础设施在塑造方面的作用是众所周知的,当人们做出他们所做的事情时,这些时间安排是如何再现和转变的,以及这种节奏的影响infastructure模式的模式。这些是本文的担忧。 Stevenage是第一个在战后时期在英国建造的新城镇。最初是一个6000个村庄,该镇在20世纪40年代末中期完全计划,以适应60,000人的新人口。绘制档案研究和口头历史访谈与史蒂万象居民,该文件详细介绍了变化节奏和日常活动模式,以及机构和基础设施如何通过这些时间安排的核武器。本文的结论是初步思考,关于本研究对理解需求模式的构成方式。

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