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早就认识到家庭对于创造福祉的重要性，众所周知，家庭的结构和功能很容易受到物质、基础设施和社会短缺的影响，但其具体是如何发生的仍不清楚。严重的能源负担（在能源成本上花费不成比例的年收入）对人们如何构想和建造房屋的重要性。它询问低收入人群如何适应高额能源费用以及能源负担如何影响满足其基本需求的能力。，还有该项目通过模拟能源在人类栖息地、社会性和社会分化中所扮演的各种角色，为人类学做出了贡献。该项目产生了一系列更广泛的影响，包括人类学方面的学生培训。研究方法、社区就业机会、对能源政策的影响以及提高公众对公用事业运营和监管的了解。研究结果广泛传播给学术和非学术受众。该项目包括为期三个时期的人种学、档案和定性研究。它集中于年。几个问题：（1）低收入人群如何使用家庭能源以及他们如何理解能源在建造房屋中的作用？（3）能源如何帮助和阻碍人们满足他们的基本需求？ (4) 公用事业政治和监管如何影响低收入人群支付电费的能力？这对他们的个人、社会以及与家中其他人的福利有何影响？ ? 方法包括能源政策档案分析、媒体分析、对日常行为和能源和公用事业经验的生态瞬时分析、主要利益相关者访谈以及媒体分析的结果将影响科学家如何理解物质结构、制度和能源基础设施以及家庭生活和家庭福利的社会生存策略之间的复杂相互作用。授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。