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2017-03-24
STS Deadline 17 May deadline academia UoN @personal
Journal: science, technology and human values
Conceptual work about infrastructure and power.
Examples need to be carefully selected.
Literature on large technical systems. Thomas Hews. Book: networks of power. It was a comparison between systems of electricity between Europe and the US. Has a chapter in the social construction of technological systems.
Three volumes by Routledge: district heating coming to town.
Infrastructures are not technical systems, they are socio technical systems.
Mazucato: universities and hospitals are second-order large technical systems that sit on the first order: sewage and water systems.
Schumacher, small is beautiful
Amory Lovins: nuclear == fascism
Smart grids
Three dimensions of power Steven Lukas (1974).
Weber's definition of power