Energy burden and the meaning and making of home

能源负担与家的意义和构成

基本信息

批准号：
2218064
负责人：
Kristin Phillips
金额：
$ 22.66万
依托单位：
Emory University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2218064&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Energy burden meaning making home

项目摘要

Anthropologists and social scientists have long recognized the importance of home for generating well-being. It is well known that structures and functions of homes are easily disrupted by material, infrastructural, and social shortfalls, yet precisely how this arises remains unclear. This project investigates the significance of severe energy burden (spending a disproportionate share of annual income on energy costs) in affecting how people conceptualize and make homes. It asks how low-income people accommodate high energy bills and how energy burden impacts the ability to meet their basic needs, as well as those of individuals with whom they share a home. The project contributes to anthropological science by modeling the varied roles that energy plays in producing human habitats, sociality, and social differentiation. The project generates a range of broader impacts, including student training in anthropological research methods, community employment opportunities, impacts on energy policy, and increased public understanding of utility operations and regulation. Results are broadly disseminated to academic and non-academic audiences.The project consists of ethnographic, archival, and qualitative research over a period of three years. It centers on several questions: (1) How do low-income people use domestic energy and how do they understand the role of energy in making homes? (2) How does energy help and hinder people in meeting their basic needs? (3) What histories, issues, and factors shape energy affordability? And (4) how do utility politics and regulation impact low-income people’s ability to pay electric bills? What consequences does this have for their welfare, individually, societally, and in relation to others in their homes? Methods include archival analysis of energy policies, media analysis, ecological momentary analysis of daily behavior and experiences with energy and utilities, key stakeholder interviews, and media analysis. Results will shape how scientists understand the complex interplay among material structures, institutional and energy infrastructures, and social subsistence strategies for homemaking and family welfare.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人类学家和社会科学家长期以来已经认识到家庭对产生福祉的重要性。众所周知，房屋的结构和功能很容易被材料，基础设施和社会短缺所破坏，但尚不清楚这种情况仍然不清楚。该项目调查了严重能源伯恩（伯恩（Burnen）在能源成本上花费不成比例的份额）在影响人们如何概念化和建立房屋方面的重要性。询问低收入人士如何容纳高能源费用，以及能源燃烧如何影响满足其基本需求的能力以及与他们共享房屋的个人的能力。该项目通过建模能量在产生人类栖息地，社会性和社会差异的各种作用来为人类学科学做出贡献。该项目产生了一系列更广泛的影响，包括人类学研究方法的学生培训，社区就业机会，对能源政策的影响以及对公用事业运营和法规的公众了解增加。结果大致传播到学术和非学术受众。该项目包括三年的民族志，档案和定性研究。它集中在几个问题上：（1）低收入人士如何使用国内能量，以及他们如何理解能量在建造房屋中的作用？（2）能源如何帮助并阻碍人们满足他们的基本需求？（3）哪些历史，问题和因素塑造了能源可负担性？（4）公用事业政治和法规如何影响低收入人民支付电费的能力？这对他们的福利，个人，社会和与家中的其他人的关系产生了什么影响？方法包括能源政策的档案分析，媒体分析，对日常行为的生态瞬时分析以及能源和公用事业的经验，主要利益相关者访谈和媒体分析。结果将塑造科学家如何理解物质结构，机构和能源基础设施之间的复杂相互作用，以及家庭福利和家庭福利的社会生存策略。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来获得的支持。