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  • CONNECTING PRACTICES
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    CONNECTING PRACTICES
    ELIZABETH SHOVE
    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. Engaging with the question of how connections are made between practices and how ...

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  • TIME, CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE
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    TIME, CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE
    ELIZABETH SHOVE / ‎FRANK TRENTMANN / ‎RICHARD WILK
    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 rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable? This volume brings together international experts from geog...

    $1,039.00

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  • CONCEPTUALISING DEMAND
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    CONCEPTUALISING DEMAND
    JENNY RINKINEN / ELIZABETH SHOVE / GREG MARSDEN
    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 five core propositions: that demand is derived from social practices; that it is made and not simply met; that it is materially embedded and temporally unfolding; and that it is modulated through many f...

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  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF ENERGY, BUILDINGS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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    THE SOCIOLOGY OF ENERGY, BUILDINGS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    SIMON GUY / ELIZABETH SHOVE
    Bringing the social sciences to the heart of environmental debate, this book demonstrates the relevance of sociological analysis for environmentally critical issues like energy consumption. Focusing on energy efficiency and the built environment, the authors take a critical look at the production and use of technical knowledge and energy-related expertise. Challenging the conve...

    $1,099.00

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  • SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
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    SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
    ELIZABETH SHOVE
    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 ...

    $1,339.00

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  • THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL PRACTICE
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    THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL PRACTICE
    ELIZABETH SHOVE / MIKA PANTZAR / MATT WATSON
    Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic. In working through core propositions about social practices and how they change the book is clear and accessible; real world example...

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  • INFRASTRUCTURES OF CONSUMPTION
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    INFRASTRUCTURES OF CONSUMPTION
    BAS VAN VLIET / HEATHER CHAPPELLS / ELIZABETH SHOVE
    For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental rest...

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  • COMFORT IN A LOWER CARBON SOCIETY
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    COMFORT IN A LOWER CARBON SOCIETY
    ELIZABETH SHOVE
    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 carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit in the context of increasing carbon intensities of everyday life. In this bold an...

    $1,399.00

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