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Humanities. Current State and Future Directions
Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions
Matúš Mišík · Nada Kujundži´c Editors
Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions
Editors Matúš Mišík Department of Political Science Comenius University in Bratislava Bratislava, Slovakia
Nada Kujundži´c Department of Folkloristics University of Turku Turku, Finland Department of Comparative Literature University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia
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Preface
The idea for this book first appeared during a workshop we organised at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia) in May 2018, entitled ‘Energy Humanities: What We Know and Where We Are Going’. The 2-day event was filled with stimulating discussions about the emerging field of energy humanities and the possibilities it provides for better understanding energy policy and its main challenges. Approaching the issues discussed in the workshop from our different disciplinary angles—the social sciences (Mišík) and the humanities (Kujundži´c)—we recognised the great potential of the new research agenda of energy humanities, as well as many stimulating, as of yet unanswered questions connected to its foundations and future development. This inspired us to develop a book project that would not only illustrate the wide scope of approaches that can be included under the umbrella of energy humanities, but also help define the nascent interdisciplinary research area and its possible contributions to answering the most pressing ene
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