Civilizing Nature with the Spade and the Rifle: The Engineer Battalion in the Araucanía Region, Chile (1877–1891)
In the nineteenth century, the Chilean army developed a strategy to conquer the environment.
In the nineteenth century, the Chilean army developed a strategy to conquer the environment.
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
Between 1905 and 1912, experts on fisheries and hydraulic engineering collaborated in order to erect a fishway at the Hemelinger dam.
A centuries-old military island in the Helsinki archipelago is shaped by competing forces of abandonment and infrastructural development.
Taylor examines the conflicts faced by women during energy transitions as professionals in energy management and as primary managers of domestic energy use.
Gooday challenges established assumptions about the inevitability of modern energy decisions and places the agency of women in the foreground of domestic electrification.
The author explores how the first professional women decorators in Britain helped women gain agency in the home.
Sayer looks at candles as an example of how less prominant energy sources and uses play key roles in energy transitions.
Looking to rural Canada, the author shows how women’s concerns for family safety drove energy choices and supplier campaigns.
This edited radio-show transcript provides personal accounts of women’s experiences in rural Ireland during the transition to electricity.