ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the everyday dimensions of transitions in household end-use technologies in Southeast Asia. It aims to show how energy trajectories are related to assets and equity of households, the uptake of different technologies, and what these changes mean for the everyday lives and experiences of modernity in the case studies. The chapter argues that the influence of energy trajectories on the local scale cannot necessarily be explained in terms of meta-processes and trends. It links energy-modernity with appliances use, culture, travel behaviour, and changing worldviews. The chapter shows that the influence of the energy trajectories on environmental sustainability is just one of the dimensions of changing energy-modernities. Moreover, this influence is hard to qualify, let alone quantify, in isolation from other social, environmental and political changes. The chapter analyses how inequality at the village level translates into unequal access and use of electricity. It also analyses some transitions in the use of appliances, cooking equipment and agricultural technology.
