eprintid: 10061354
rev_number: 21
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datestamp: 2019-03-12 14:03:16
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creators_name: Johnson, C
title: District heating in Belgrade: The politics of provision
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F34
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Energy infrastructure materialises social institutions within urban fabric. This chapter analyses Belgrade’s district heating system with an STS lens to identify the politics and social practices it shapes. The heating system was developed during the Yugoslav era under a rationale of modern socialist living. Today it is going through a process of liberalisation in line with Serbia’s new political economy. This change means reworking the territories and subjectivities of the system through valves, meters and contracts. Using ethnographic research, the difficulty in realising these changes is shown, and the conflicts they create with existing social values and practices are discussed. The consumer sovereignty promised through reform proves hard to materialise amidst the technical and social norms of the existing infrastructure.
date: 2018
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351106177-11
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1600921
doi: 10.4324/9781351106177-11
isbn_13: 9781138476042
lyricists_name: Johnson, Charlotte
lyricists_id: CJOHN80
actors_name: Johnson, Charlotte
actors_id: CJOHN80
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: London, UK
pagerange: 102-114
book_title: Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies
editors_name: Shove, S
editors_name: Trentmann, F
citation:        Johnson, C;      (2018)    District heating in Belgrade: The politics of provision.                    In: Shove, S and Trentmann, F, (eds.) Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies. (pp. 102-114).   Routledge: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
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