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Author:   Cecily Maller ,  Yolande Strengers
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   3.617kg
ISBN:  

9783319921884

ISBN 10:   3319921886
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   07 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Dynamic non-humans in a changing world.- PART I: Nature, materiality and processes.- Chapter 2 Thriving in the Anthropocene: understanding human-weed relations and invasive plant management using theories of practice.- Chapter 3 Seeing wood for the trees: placing biological processes within practices of heating and harvesting.- Chapter 4 ‘Dynamic’ non-human animals in theories of practice: views from the subaltern.- Chapter 5 Dynamic bodies in theories of social practice: vibrant materials and more-than-human assemblages.- Chapter 6 Mobile drinking – bottled water practices and ontological politics.- Chapter 7 Immersed in thermal flows: heat as productive of and produced by social practices.- PART II: Technologies, automation and performativity.- Chapter 8 Displacement: attending to the role of things in theories of practice through design research.- Chapter 9 How software matters: connective tissue and self-driving cars.- Chapter 10 Automated artefacts as co-performers of social practices: washing machines, laundering and design.- Chapter 11 Robots and Roomba riders: non-human performers in theories of social practice.- Chapter 12 Automation, smart homes and symmetrical anthropology: non-humans as performers of practices?.

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Dr Cecily Maller is a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia. Associate Professor Yolande Strengers is a Principal Research Fellow and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia.

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