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Connecting Practices
Connecting Practices develops a distinctive method of conceptualising significant trends and global issues including environmental sustainability and inequalities in wealth and …
Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience
This title interrogates the meaning and supposed "normality" of practices which over the past few generations have become "de rigeur". It considers daily showers, heating, air …
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life
Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing …
Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society
Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower …
Infrastructures in Practice
Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible – at the same time, their …
Sustainable Practices
Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to …
Conceptualising Demand
This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?Conceptualising Demand focuses on …
The Design of Everyday Life
How do common household items such as basic plastic house wares or high-tech digital cameras transform our daily lives? The Design of Everyday Life considers this question in …
The Nexus of Practices
The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of …
Energy Fables
Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised. Drawing on recent research …
Social Environmental Research in the European Union
This book explores the making of international social science, and the parts which academics, policymakers and research managers play in creating European social environmental …
The Sociology of Energy, Buildings and the Environment
Bringing the social sciences to the heart of environmental debate, this book demonstrates the relevance of sociological analysis for environmentally critical issues like energy …