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Alex T. Strating
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Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’
A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge
The literature on Design Anthropology (DA) is skewed towards discussion exploring anthropology's potential for design. In contrast, discourse on how design can contribute to anthropology is somewhat limited. This article proposes an ‘Anthropology through Design’ (AtD) approach by
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Exploring peer-to-peer returns in off-grid renewable energy systems in rural India
An anthropological perspective on local energy sharing and trading
Within the areas of distributed, off-grid, and decentralized energy, there is a growing interest in local energy exchanges. A crucial component of an energy exchange is a return provided by an energy-receiver to an energy-giver for the energy provided. The existing energy literat
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Towards an ethnography of electrification in rural India
Social relations and values in household energy exchanges
Many energy researchers and practitioners envision householders to have an active role in local energy distribution in emerging energy systems. In the energy literature, the dominant view of local energy distribution, grounded in the rational choice perspective, sees exchanges of
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