Overcoming Abstraction: Affectual States in the Efforts to Decarbonize Energy Among Young Climate Activists in Stavanger, Norway
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Overcoming Abstraction : Affectual States in the Efforts to Decarbonize Energy Among Young Climate Activists in Stavanger, Norway. / Lautrup, Andy.
Digitisation and Low-carbon Energy Transitions . ed. / Siddharth Sareen; Katja Müller. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2022. p. 73-95.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Overcoming Abstraction
T2 - Affectual States in the Efforts to Decarbonize Energy Among Young Climate Activists in Stavanger, Norway
AU - Lautrup, Andy
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Lautrup engages ethnographically with energy transitions towards a low-carbon future as experienced by young climate activists in Norway’s oil-capital Stavanger. By relating the activists’ sense of climate change as abstract to climate change’s manifestation in digital data models as a phenomenon taking place in no specific location and mainly in the future (Knox. 2021. “Hacking Anthropology”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27.S1 (2021): 108–126), the chapter shows that the activists work to overcome abstractions by focusing on the local and contemporary through examples that come from the Global North and provide visceral, embodied effects. The young activists’ concretizing practices, Lautrup argues, result in affective states that render concreteness as something desirable and abstraction as something undesirable to be overcome, but also that in an oil-city, there is a limit to the desirability of concreteness.
AB - Lautrup engages ethnographically with energy transitions towards a low-carbon future as experienced by young climate activists in Norway’s oil-capital Stavanger. By relating the activists’ sense of climate change as abstract to climate change’s manifestation in digital data models as a phenomenon taking place in no specific location and mainly in the future (Knox. 2021. “Hacking Anthropology”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27.S1 (2021): 108–126), the chapter shows that the activists work to overcome abstractions by focusing on the local and contemporary through examples that come from the Global North and provide visceral, embodied effects. The young activists’ concretizing practices, Lautrup argues, result in affective states that render concreteness as something desirable and abstraction as something undesirable to be overcome, but also that in an oil-city, there is a limit to the desirability of concreteness.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-16708-9_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-16708-9_5
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783031167072
SP - 73
EP - 95
BT - Digitisation and Low-carbon Energy Transitions
A2 - Sareen, Siddharth
A2 - Müller, Katja
PB - Palgrave Macmillan, Springer
ER -
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