Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 238
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-78661-335-6 • Hardback • April 2021 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-78661-336-3 • eBook • April 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Gordon Walker is professor of environment and justice at the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Energy and Rhythm Together
Chapter 2 Rhythm and Rhythmanalysis: Interpretation and Foundation
Chapter 3 Energetic Rhythms: Thermodynamics and Rhythmanalysis
Chapter 4: Solar and Social Rhythms: Light, Heat and Polyrhythmic Change
Chapter 5: Rhythms in Energy Systems: Grid Electricity and Big (Carbon) Power
Chapter 6: Low Carbon Rhythms and Electricity Systems in Polyrhythmic Transition
Chapter 7 Rhythms without Techno-energies: Bodies, Homes and Cities
Energy and Rhythm represents a groundbreaking rethinking of the relationship between energy and daily life. Walker presents a highly readable and truly original account of how energy systems have come to be the way they are and what it will take to transform them for a low carbon future. I highly recommend.
— Conor Harrison, assistant professor of geography, University of South Carolina
Rhythm and Energy in Society provides an urgently needed account of how and why it is necessary to bring energy and time together to tackle climate change and achieve low carbon futures. Walker offers an intellectually rigorous and innovative framework for how a carbon-dependent existence can and should be understood as dynamic rhythms in transition. This excellent book is essential reading for all scholars concerned with climate, energy and social change.
— Cecily Maller, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne