The Current Economy

Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics

The Current Economy
Canay OEzden-Schilling
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 224pg
15 Jun 2021 US
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9781503628212
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Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity markets that rely on engineering expertise to trade competitively while respecting the physical requirements of the electric grid. The Current Economy is an ethnography of electricity markets in the United States that shows the heterogenous and technologically inflected nature of economic expertise today. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among market data analysts, electric grid engineers, and citizen activists, this book provides a deep dive into the convoluted economy of electricity and its reverberations throughout daily life. Canay OEzden-Schilling argues that many of the economic formations in everyday life come from work cultures rarely suspected of doing economic work: cultures of science, technology, and engineering that often do not have a claim to economic theory or practice, yet nonetheless dictate forms of economic activity. Contributing to economic anthropology, science and technology studies, energy studies, and the anthropology of expertise, this book is a map of the everyday infrastructures of economy and energy into which we are plugged as denizens of a technological world.
"With incredible ethnographic skill and formidable theoretical insight,The Current Economy shows how things that we presume to be singular, such as electric grids, can be multiplied, recast as sources of profits, resisted as intrusions into middle class lives, and much more. This is essential reading for all interested in discovering how the dominant economic imagination is much more than market orthodoxy. "-Andrea Ballestero, Rice University "Electricity is ordinary. Electricity is extraordinary. In this extraordinary ethnography, Canay OEzden-Schilling re-introduces us to this mundane form of energy through its recent marketization process. At the cutting edge of anthropological approaches to capitalism and infrastructure, this is a masterful account of a commodity that kicks back. "-Hannah Appel, University of California, Los Angeles
Canay OEzden-Schilling is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781503628212
Published: 15 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 224

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