Curious energy consumers: Humans and nonhumans in assemblages of household practice
Curious energy consumers: Humans and nonhumans in assemblages of household practice
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好奇的能源消费者：家庭实践中的人类和非人类
DOI：
10.1177/1469540514536194
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
C. Maller
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文献类型：
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作者：
Y. Strengers;L. Nicholls;C. Maller
在国际能源政策、方案和消费者研究方面，一个占主导地位的理想消费者正在出现。这类消费者通常是成年人，他们有能力对家庭的能源消耗做出自主、有效和理性的决定。本文试图打破这种占主导地位的以人类为中心的消费者概念，并提供了解和潜在干预能源消费者生活的新方法。通过对居住在澳大利亚悉尼的住户进行定性研究，以及社会学和科学技术研究中的实践、物质性和代理理论，我们试图将消费者理解为在实践的分布式组合中运作的人类和非人类行为体。我们探讨了将非传统能源消费者概念化的含义，如婴儿、宠物、害虫和泳池泵，作为消耗能源的实践中的表演者或材料。我们的分析提供了可能干预能源消耗模式的新方法。我们认为，政策制定者需要将注意力重新集中在寻找进入实践组合的路线上，以实现变革。最后，我们呼吁进一步探索和认识在家庭中发现的无数好奇的消费者。
In international energy policy, programmes and consumer research, a dominant ideal consumer is emerging. This consumer is typically a human adult who has the agency to make autonomous, functional and rational decisions about his or her household’s energy consumption. This article seeks to disrupt this dominant anthropocentric conceptualisation of the consumer and provide new ways of knowing and potentially intervening in the lives of energy consumers. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with householders living in Sydney, Australia, and theories of practice, materiality and agency from sociology and science and technology studies, we seek to understand consumers as human and nonhuman actants operating in distributed assemblages of practice. We explore the implications of conceptualising non-traditional consumers of energy, such as babies, pets, pests and pool pumps, as performers of or materials in practices that consume energy. Our analysis provides new ways of potentially intervening in patterns of energy consumption. We argue that policy makers need to refocus their attention on finding routes into assemblages of practice to achieve change. We conclude by calling for further exploration and recognition of the myriad curious consumers found in households.
影响因子：
2.6
作者：
Hargreaves, Tom
通讯作者：
Hargreaves, Tom