ABSTRACT
Rethinking concepts that prevail in the social sciences and humanities through an encounter with electricity is a complex and exciting task. Electricity provides a fertile field for such an interventional anthropology to grow up in, and this is not least because it is already something around which an interdisciplinary field of research, scholarship, practice and intervention is being constituted. The table at which such questions are debated is where anthropology needs to have a place and where it might work towards interventions towards alternative possible futures. The study of electricity yet again brings it to the fore in a way that both demonstrates the problem and emphasizes the need to be reflexive about how objects of study are constituted and constructed. A focus on electricity is more precise because it calls on us to interrogate the qualities and affordances of one thing that is in energy research bundled under a wider category.
