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Electrifying Anthropology. Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures Editor(s):            Simone Abram,            Brit Ross Winthereik,            Thomas Yarrow        What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to  electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the  new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged?  How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that  electricity is not one thing?   This book  re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from  anthropology and science and technology studies, raising fascinating  questions about the contemporary world and its future. Through  ethnographic studies of bulbs, bicycles, dams, power grids and much  more, the contributors shed light on practices that are often  overlooked, showing how electricity is enacted in multiple ways. Electrifying Anthropology  moves beyond the idea of electricity as an immovable force, and instead  offers a set of potential trajectories for thinking about electricity  and its effects in contemporary society. With new contributions  on an emerging area of research, this timely collection will be of value  to students and scholars of anthropology, science and technology  studies, geography and engineering.            Table of contents1. Current Thinking - An IntroductionSimone Abram, Durham University, UK, Brit Winthereik, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark &#38; Tom Yarrow, Durham University, UK2. Electricity is Not a NounGretchen Bakke, McGill University, Canada3. Widened Reason and Deepened Optimism: Electricity and Morality in Durkheim's Anthropology and Our Own Leo Coleman, Hunter College, USA4. No Current: Electricity and Disconnection in Rural IndiaJamie Cross, University of Edinburgh, UK5. What the E-bike Tells Us About the Anthropology of EnergyNathalie Ortar, CNRS, France6. At the Edge of the Network of Power in Japan, c.1910s-1960sHiroki Shin, Birkbeck University London, UK7. Can the Mekong Speak? On Hydropower, Models and Thing-PowerCasper Bruun Jensen, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark 8. Electrification and the Everyday Spaces of State Power in Postcolonial Mozambique Joshua Kirshner, University of York, UK &#38; Marcus Power, Durham University, UK 9. Big Grid: The Computing Beast that Preceded Big Data Canay Özden-Schilling, MIT, USA10. Touring the Nuclear Sublime: Power Plant Tours as Tools of GovernmentTristan Loloum, Lausanne University, Switzerland11. Afterword: Electricity as Inspiration - Towards Indeterminate InterventionsSarah Pink, RMIT University, Australia