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Actors, networks, and translation hubs: Gas central heating as a rapid socio-technical transition in the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Hanmer, C., & Abram, S. (2017). Actors, networks, and translation hubs: Gas central heating as a rapid socio-technical transition in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 34, 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.03.017

To achieve UK government targets to reduce carbon emissions by 80% on 1990 levels by 2050 will require a radical shift in domestic heating practices, which are currently dominated by gas central heating,1 installed in 82% of UK homes (Palmer and Coop... Read More about Actors, networks, and translation hubs: Gas central heating as a rapid socio-technical transition in the United Kingdom.

Contemporary Obsessions with Time and the Promise of the Future (2017)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2017). Contemporary Obsessions with Time and the Promise of the Future. In J. F. Salazar, S. Pink, A. Irving, & J. Sjöberg (Eds.), Anthropologies and futures : researching emerging and uncertain worlds (61-82). Bloomsbury Academic

Im/mobile method/ologies (2017)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2017). Im/mobile method/ologies. In A. Elliot, R. Norum, & N. Salazar (Eds.), Methodologies of mobility : ethnography and experiment (195-200). Berghahn Books

Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs) (2017)
Book Chapter
Abram, S. (2017). Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs). In J. Sandler, & R. Thedvall (Eds.), Meeting ethnography : meetings as key technologies of contemporary governance, development, and resistance (46-68). Routledge

This chapter considers formalized meetings in local authorities, (or councils), primarily in Britain and Norway. Such local authorities, instances of the state at the local level, use standard formats for meetings between elected representatives, adm... Read More about Learning to Meet (or How to talk to Chairs).

Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government (2017)
Journal Article
Abram, S. (2017). Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12592

Meetings are the apotheosis of contemporary bureaucratic life, containing dilemmas and contradictions that are at the heart of modernity. In particular, political and bureaucratic meetings (both state and civic) are ritual performances in which rules... Read More about Contradiction in contemporary political life: meeting bureaucracy in Norwegian municipal government.