COVID energy, scales and systems

DEUTERO: What conceptual apparatuses and habits, modes of collectivity and economy scaffold (or undercut) reflexive reconsideration of how energy is being thought and talked about during COVID-19?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 2:23pm
META: How are energy imaginaries—motivations, rationalities, methods, means, scales, etc.—being expressed, deliberated, and debated during COVID-19? What new forms of expression have these discourses engendered?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 2:25pm
MACRO 1: What economic activities and interests have and continue to shape energy planning and practice in the midst of COVID-19? How has COVID-19’s impact on different energy systems influenced the way future economies are being imagined and planned?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 2:30pm
MACRO 2: What laws and policy have addressed COVID-19’s impacts on energy production, distribution, and consumption? How have they caused different scales of sovereignties (federal, state, municipal, etc.) to intersect, overlap, and resist each other?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 2:34pm
MESO: What forms of political and community organization have been developed in order to plan and manage this site’s energy in the midst of COVID-19? How do these organizations relate to each other (i.e. what kinds of coordination are in play/called for?)

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 2:36pm
MICRO 1: How is energy research, planning, and development being carried out or resisted during COVID-19? How are COVID-19 policies and practices preventing access to energy assistance, which is needed ever more given decreased incomes?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 2:39pm
MICRO 2: How have public initiatives taken to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 (i.e. shelter-in-place) shifted energy consumption patterns? How has this increased or alleviated stress on extant energy infrastructures?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 2:39pm
BIO: How do energy systems impact abilities to avoid or fight off COVID-19 infections? How have COVID-related disruptions/responses to energy systems impacted other bodily vulnerabilities? How are these embodied inequalities being perceived/discussed?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 3:29pm
NANO 1: What thought styles, semiotic ideologies, and phenomenologies are in play in imagining and responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on energy systems, energy use, and knowledge of energy?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 3:18pm
NANO 2: What data, forms of analysis, emergent practices, and modes of expression are persuasive and consequential here?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 3:18pm
EXDU 1: How have different programs/institutions of education influenced conceptions of the intersection between energy-system management and disease control? Do shifts in household energy conditions force residents to rethink/learn about energy systems?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 3:39pm
EXDU 2: Who is imagining and planning energy-system adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic in this setting with what modes of expertise, cut by what vested interests?

Submitted by James Adams on May 13, 2020 - 3:42pm

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