Bouvier, Yves <br/><br/>
Energy consumers, a boundary concept for the history of energy 

 -  2018.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The historical approach of energies consumers is based on several questions on the conceptual frameworks. In the dailylife anthropology framework, energy consumption disappears behind the use of the artefacts and becomes an infra-consumption. The category of “energy” itself presumes an integrated vision of energy sources. This vision is not rooted in the consumers practices and we suggest the concept of “energies consumers” to be closer to these behaviours. From this dialogue between empirical and theoretical approaches, the “energies consumers” is a concept fruitful for the contemporary historical works (gender, global history, transition…).