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Author:   Elizabeth Shove ,  Nicola Spurling
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780415540650

ISBN 10:   0415540658
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   12 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgements. 1. Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change Part 1: How Are Practices Defined and How Do They Change? 2. What Sort of a Practice Is Eating? 3. The Edge of Change: On the Emergence, Persistence, and Dissolution of Practices Part 2: The Materials of Practice 4. Transitions In the Wrong Direction? Digital Technologies and Daily Life 5. Mundane Materials At Work: Paper In Practice Part 3: Sharing and Circulation 6. Practices, Movement and Circulation: Implications for Sustainability 7. Sharing Conventions: Communities of Practice and Thermal Comfort Part 4: Relations Between Practices 8. Building Future Systems of Velomobility 9. The Making of Electric Cycling 10. Extended Bodies and the Geometry of Practices Part 5: Sustainability, Inequality and Power 11. Power, Sustainability and Well Being: An Outsider’s View 12. Inequality, Sustainability and Capability: Locating Justice In Social Practice

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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.

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