Lumière (éclairage)

L’électrification des foyers à Los Angeles ouvre une fenêtre pour l’étude du changement des contours de la masculinité entre 1900 et 1930.

This article introduces the concept of ‘Polyflexibility’ as a way of expressing the complexity of interacting forms of flexibility.

This paper provides an account of how past changes in energy demand have affected the balancing of the UK’s gas systems between the introduction of gaslight in 1795 and the present day.

This article examines how the perils conjured by blackouts in American cities after 1965 became interpreted as a key point of political and bargaining leverage for the nation’s coal miners.

This personal essay describes light(s) and darkness(es) in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) during polar night in January 2019.

La révolution industrielle et ses avancées techniques de l’époque contemporaine favorisèrent dès le 19^e s.

In this special issue, we argue that light(s) and darkness(es) should be understood in their multiplicity, and that they constitute two aspects of the same phenomenon. They should, therefore, be studied in relation to each other.

This essay takes expert assumptions about light preferences as a starting point for a historical inquiry into what I call imagined sociotechnical communities of light and energy.

In the British Raj, colonial lighting oscillated between “Tool of Empire” and everyday technology. While the British used modern lighting to visualize power and accentuate social differences, it was also a contested object of appropriation and protest.

Le décalage entre l’idéal policier moderne d'une appréhension homogène – « géométrique » – du tissu urbain grâce à l'éclairage et la réalité de la persistance de zones d'obscurité est particulièrement perceptible pendant les périodes de trouble à l'ordre public.