Winter cold in a summer place: Perceived norms of seasonal adaptation and cultures of home heating in Australia

Hitchings, Russell; Waitt, Gordon R; Roggeveen, Katherine; Chisholm, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2015.05.007

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“…They suggest energy injustice may be defined as “an inability to realise essential capabilities as a direct or indirect result of insufficient access to affordable, reliable and safe energy services, and taking into account available reasonable alternative means of realising these capabilities” (Day et al., , p. 260). At issue, then, is how energy consumption facilitates what are understood to be activities that are taken for granted as essential to everyday life – norms that may vary spatially and socially (see Hitchings et al., ). Energy injustice forces reflection on how to manage the boundary between the personal and the social.…”

Section: Energy Justice and Well‐beingmentioning

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Space of energy well‐being: Social housing tenants’ everyday experiences of fuel poverty

Waitt¹,

Harada²

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper contributes to geographical perspectives on energy justice by arguing for the concept of "spaces of energy well-being." We build on the concepts of capabilities, home, and emotional embodiment to offer an understanding of the spatiality of well-being. The paper draws on empirical material from a study conducted with social housing tenants in Port Kembla, Australia, following recent energy price increases. Interviews illustrate that social housing tenants engaged in reducing domestic energy consumption occupy a paradoxical space of well-being.We argue that energy bills are lived and felt daily through bodies as anxiety, given that participants experience social housing as a therapeutic and safe place that allows possibilities to refashion the self. We better understand the dynamics of pride and shame from limiting energy use. Our analysis suggests that essential to understanding the ways social housing tenants relate to uneven access to fuel is as an emotionally embodied home making and unmaking practice. K E Y W O R D S Australia, capabilities, emotions, energy justice, fuel poverty, sensory ethnography ---

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Section: Energy Justice and Well‐beingmentioning

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Space of energy well‐being: Social housing tenants’ everyday experiences of fuel poverty

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Harada²

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…However, they downplay winter discomfort and ascribe much more importance to the mitigation of the extremely hot summer conditions, a common finding in subtropical areas (e.g. for Australia, see Hitchings et al : 163).…”

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“…Even if the term 'thermal comfort' -coined during studies in the comfort chamber in the 1920s (Chang 2016) -is slowly losing its universal connotations (Nicol and Roaf 2017), it still figures prominently in discussions of indoor climatisation. Studies on thermal regulation practices investigate the interactions between social actors and their material environment and largely focus on the role of air-conditioning (Hitchings and Lee 2008;Sahakian 2014) and heating (Cupples et al 2007;Hitchings et al 2015). Beyond the wish to regulate indoor conditions for the physical body, climate control also addresses the social body: atmospheres, sensations and sociality either contribute to or impede senses of thermal comfort (Heschong 1979;Madsen and Gram-Hanssen 2017).…”

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Contours of an urban architectural anthropology: built environment, climate control and socio‐material practices in winter in Chongqing (south‐west China)

Kobi

2019

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The materiality of and daily life in urban high‐rise buildings has barely been researched, especially when compared to the rich anthropological and architectural studies that exist on rural architecture. This article engages with indoor climate control in an urbanising environment. It considers urban architecture as a social field characterised by the interaction of diverse actors such as architects, policymakers, investors and residents. Based on ethnographic data from subtropical Chongqing (China) in winter, the broader aim is to outline an urban architectural anthropology that approaches the house from a holistic perspective with regard to its materiality, namely by considering both its structure and interior architecture, all embedded in the larger political and economic context. With regard to thermal comfort, architects often focus on the qualities of the material structure of a building for indoor climate control, while social science approaches tend solely to consider the objects and practices inside those structures. In following a practice–arrangement nexus approach as put forward by Schatzki (2010), I propose to think the two levels as interrelated. Ethnography‐based research thus contributes significantly to grasping how people react to buildings and make themselves comfortable in social, socio‐material and thermal terms.

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“…Long exposure to cold conditions may lead to a loss of body heat and a drop in core body temperature, resulting in hypothermia which may then lead to confusion, lethargy, loss of consciousness, and even death. Mortality among older people due to cardiovascular disease tends to increase during cold weather [12]. A long exposure to hot conditions may also result in heart failure, heatrelated illness, such as heat stroke, heat exhaustion, dizziness, collapse and death [13].…”

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A thermal comfort environmental chamber study of older and younger people

Soebarto

Zhang

Schiavon

2019

Building and Environment

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Winter cold in a summer place: Perceived norms of seasonal adaptation and cultures of home heating in Australia

Cited by 59 publications

References 34 publications

Space of energy well‐being: Social housing tenants’ everyday experiences of fuel poverty

Space of energy well‐being: Social housing tenants’ everyday experiences of fuel poverty

Contours of an urban architectural anthropology: built environment, climate control and socio‐material practices in winter in Chongqing (south‐west China)

A thermal comfort environmental chamber study of older and younger people

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