Abraham Tidwell

TL;DR: Examining the everyday ethics of people who live and work in Colorado's uranium-rich Western Slope and Wyoming's coal-rich Powder River Basin reveals an insistence that ‘good’ energy systems also provide opportunities for dignified and well-paid blue-collar work.

TL;DR: The Social Energy Atlas as discussed by the authors is a new and burgeoning research project that employs such methods for studying emergent narrative patterns and variation at the local level, drawing inspiration from rhetoric, corpus linguistics, and dialectology.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the concept of energy security is best understood as a sociotechnical imaginary, a collective vision for a good society realized through t... and argued that energy security can be viewed as a social good.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how the norms and values embedded in energy systems design and planning shape how residents experience change in the energy grid and argue that such "sociotechnical imaginaries" collectively formed visions of social life related to science and technology development are a crucial pathway for social science to engage in fostering socially reflexive mechanisms in energy development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that communities that adopt solar tend to be concentrated in a few counties, indicating existing conversations are limited to a circumscribed set of social networks, which can enable focused qualitative analyses of existing solar trends, not only among high-adoption areas but within communities where little to no adoption has occurred.