Time: 14:00-15:30 CET, 15 August 2025
Discussant: Nora Wutke
Moderator: Lee Towers
On 15 August our friends at the Anthropology, Energy, and Economy reading group will convene to discuss three articles regarding heating, air conditioning, and city governance in relation to embodied comfort:
(1) Johnson, Charlotte. 2016. “District Heating as Heterotopia: Tracing the Social Contract through Domestic Energy Infrastructure in Pimlico, London: Social Contract and Energy in Pimlico.” Economic Anthropology 3 (1): 94–105. https://lnkd.in/gwrU-Ejq.
(2) Courtney, C. 2023. The birth of cool: Heat and air-conditioning in the history of Wuhan, 1950–2020. Urban Studies, 61(15), 2963-2978. 00420980231153512 https://lnkd.in/gz8fzBuN
(3) Chang, J.-H. 2024. Thermal governance, urban metabolism and carbonised comfort: Air-conditioning and urbanisation in the Gulf and Doha. Urban Studies 61, 2928–2944. https://lnkd.in/gUcfiJkK
Meeting attendance is open to all, even without having completely read each of the three articles in this case. Our group meets roughly every six weeks during the academic year. Regular attendees share responsibilities for suggesting future readings and occasionally hosting, moderating, or presenting discussant comments at the beginning of specific meetings. We will use the last five minutes of our call to vote on the next reading.
For more information or the video conference link, please email: [email protected]
