Rising electricity consumption: Driving forces and consequences. The case of rural Zanzibar
Rising electricity consumption: Driving forces and consequences. The case of rural Zanzibar
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电力消耗上升：驱动力和后果。
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2007
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Tanja Winther
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Tanja Winther
该文件解决了目前，在南部，农村地区的桑给巴尔的电力消费不断上升，并试图占人们的改变做法背后的驱动力的范围。作者认为，这些力量一方面取决于新技术的可用性，并通过全球和国家机构以及伊斯兰教、商业和政府部门（卫生、教育）的变化等影响。另一方面，本文探讨了这种影响与增加消费的内部动力相互作用的方式。作者通过对该地区社会和文化生活的特点和动态的分析，解释了为什么有些做法比其他做法更不可能改变。例如，桑给巴尔的人们把电（冰箱和炉子）和他们的食物保持一定的距离。相比之下，电灯被认为与教育密切相关，如学生在重要考试前被送到学校上夜校。能源消耗研究的一般方法在多大程度上可以借鉴桑给巴尔的经验案例？在其他情况下，人们用电的模式肯定不同。在可持续能源政策方面，每个地方都有一套特定的挑战和目标，这些挑战和目标在不同程度上可能与减贫和对环境的关注有关。然而，在方法论上，作者认为，可以在同一分析框架内研究和理解能源消费现象;一个关注外部和内部动态、技术的物质和社会方面以及权力关系、性别和谈判的重要性的框架。
The paper addresses the current, rising electricity consumption in the southern, rural locality of Zanzibar and seeks to account for the range of driving forces behind people’s changed practices. The author argues that these forces are, on the one hand, determined by the availability of new technologies and through global and national institutions and influences such as Islam, commercials and changes in the governmental sector (health, education). On the other hand, the paper explores the way such influences interplay with the internal dynamics related to increasing consumption. Through an analysis of the particular character and dynamics of social and cultural life in this region, the author explains why some practices are less likely to change than other practices. For example, people in Zanzibar keep electricity (freezers and stoves) at a distance from their food. By contrast, electric light is perceived as intimately related to education, as illustrated when school children are sent to school for night classes before important exams. To which extent may general approaches to the study of energy consumption draw on this empirical case from Zanzibar? In other contexts, the patterns of people’s electricity use certainly differ. In terms of sustainable energy policies, each locality has a particular set of challenges and goals, which to varying degree may be related to poverty reduction and concern for the environment. Methodologically, however, the author argues that the phenomenon of energy consumption may be studied and understood within the same framework of analysis; one that pays attention to both external and internal dynamics, the material and social aspects of technologies and the importance of power relations, gender and negotiations.