Wilcox+Core+Categories


 * CORE CATEGORIES**

---These are all connected! (especially the first three)---

Energy Imaginaries The affectively-charged symbolic order to which the existing environment (built and “natural”) advocacy organizations, social movements, corporations, utilities, scientists, engineers and other technology/energy professionals, politicians, policy designers, entertainment media, journalists, and individual citizens all contribute through the circulation of signs and stories. Energy imaginaries condition and are conditioned by embodied practices, desires, and habits (and other sociotechnical imaginaries). Builds on Marcus and (somewhat) Jasanoff.

Energy Regimes Borrowed from Winner and Nye with some modulation via Foucault, energy regimes inscribe the virtual and feed back in to energy imaginaries. Energy regimes and energy imaginaries are closely related. (to generalize, the modifier //energy// can be replaced with //sociotechnical//).

Embodied Sociotechnical Practices Roughly maps onto Bourdieu’s //habitus// and Shove and Warde’s concept of social practice. Embodied sociotechnical practices are the dynamic, often habitual, units that use energy.

Collective Interventions Design-based, policy-based, advocacy-based, or a combination, collective interventions seek to influence everyday practices (in this case, energy use) in one way or another on behalf of a larger collective of humans and nonhumans.

PERIPHERAL CATEGORIES

Sustainabilities Plural. Recognition that sustainable practices are diverse, carrying varied values and implied social arrangements.

Animacy A form of non-human otherness that is not limited to “life.”

Intimate Affectedness** The state of being engaged in the micro-cosmo-politics of everyday life.