Connecting Practices: Large Topics in Society and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9781032229966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 168 str.

UK) Shove Elizabeth (Lancaster University

Opis

Connecting Practices develops a distinctive method of conceptualising significant trends and global issues including environmental sustainability and inequalities in wealth and health, arguing that these are outcomes of the ways in which social practices interact and combine across space and time.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: Spreading Out  2. Infusing  3. Circulating  Part II: Amalgamating and Adapting  4. Merging and Emerging  5. Cross-referencing  6. Interweaving  Part III: Textures of Advantage  7. Accumulating  8. Dividing  9. Joining up the dots

O autorze

Elizabeth Shove is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is co-author of The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How it Changes (SAGE, 2012) and co-editor of The Nexus of Practices: Connections, Constellations, Practitioners (Routledge, 2016). Her other books include Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice (Routledge, 2020), Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector (Routledge, 2019), and Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies (Routledge, 2018).