1st Edition
Sustainable Practices Social Theory and Climate Change
Acknowledgements. 1. Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change by Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling Part 1: How Are Practices Defined and How Do They Change? 2. What Sort of a Practice Is Eating? by Alan Warde 3. The Edge of Change: On the Emergence, Persistence, and Dissolution of Practices by Ted Schatzki Part 2: The Materials of Practice 4. Transitions In the Wrong Direction? Digital Technologies and Daily Life by Inge Røpke and Toke H. Christensen 5. Mundane Materials At Work: Paper In Practice by Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Mika Pantzar and Sammy Toyoki Part 3: Sharing and Circulation 6. Practices, Movement and Circulation: Implications for Sustainability by Allison Hui 7. Sharing Conventions: Communities of Practice and Thermal Comfort by Russell Hitchings Part 4: Relations Between Practices 8. Building Future Systems of Velomobility by Matt Watson 9. The Making of Electric Cycling by Julien Mchardy 10. Extended Bodies and the Geometry of Practices by Grégoire Wallenborn Part 5: Sustainability, Inequality and Power 11. Power, Sustainability and Well Being: An Outsider’s View by Andrew Sayer 12. Inequality, Sustainability and Capability: Locating Justice In Social Practice by Gordon Walker
Biography
Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and held an ESRC climate change leadership fellowship on Transitions in Practice. Recent publications include The Dynamics of Social Practice: everyday life and how it changes, with Mika Pantzar and Matt Watson (Sage, 2012).
Nicola Spurling is Research Associate in the Sustainable Practices Research Group at Manchester University. Her research explores how social practices change, focusing on intersections of policy, institutions and individual biographies.
