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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Canay Özden-SchillingPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9781503612273ISBN 10: 1503612279 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 15 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Current Economy 1. Regulating 2. Representing 3. Optimizing 4. Protesting Epilogue: Techno-EconomicsReviewsWith incredible ethnographic skill and formidable theoretical insight,The Current Economy shows how things that we presume to be singular, such as electric grids, can be multiplied, recast as sources of profits, resisted as intrusions into middle class lives, and much more. This is essential reading for all interested in discovering how the dominant economic imagination is much more than market orthodoxy. -Andrea Ballestero, Rice University Electricity is ordinary. Electricity is extraordinary. In this extraordinary ethnography, Canay OEzden-Schilling re-introduces us to this mundane form of energy through its recent marketization process. At the cutting edge of anthropological approaches to capitalism and infrastructure, this is a masterful account of a commodity that kicks back. -Hannah Appel, University of California, Los Angeles OEzden-Schilling provides a fresh take on the ways in which technological and economic expertise shape and change contemporary capitalist markets while purposefully refraining from 'taking neo-liberalism as an allencompassing context' (p. 112). -Darren Sierhuis, Urbanities [The Current Economy] is a great book with much to engage with in it. For anthropologists interested in expertise, energy, and the making of markets, it makes a timely contribution to these topics and is essential reading. Accessibly written, it will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, and seasoned researchers alike. -Sean Field, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute OEzden-Schilling's ethnography of US electricity markets is a compelling example of issue-oriented anthropology, as she navigates different sites to convey the state of market-making in wholesale electricity. ... Coming out in the wake of 2021 Texas electricity infrastructure failure, which demonstrated the importance of designing resilient and embedded electricity markets,The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economicsis a good resource for anyone who is interested market-building practices in general and electricity markets in particular. -Hikment Nazli Azergun, Journal for the Anthropology of North America With incredible ethnographic skill and formidable theoretical insight,The Current Economy shows how things that we presume to be singular, such as electric grids, can be multiplied, recast as sources of profits, resisted as intrusions into middle class lives, and much more. This is essential reading for all interested in discovering how the dominant economic imagination is much more than market orthodoxy. -Andrea Ballestero, Rice University Electricity is ordinary. Electricity is extraordinary. In this extraordinary ethnography, Canay OEzden-Schilling re-introduces us to this mundane form of energy through its recent marketization process. At the cutting edge of anthropological approaches to capitalism and infrastructure, this is a masterful account of a commodity that kicks back. -Hannah Appel, University of California, Los Angeles Author InformationCanay Özden-Schilling is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |