Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9780415540650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 208 str.

Elizabeth Shove; Nicola Spurling

Opis

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 promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer.

Spis treści

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