Sustainable Practices (eBook, ePUB)

Social Theory and Climate Change
Redaktion: Shove, Elizabeth; Spurling, Nicola

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change is widely agreed to be one of the greatest challenges facing society today. Thus far, however, efforts to promote pro-environmental behaviour have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer. The expert contributors to Sustainable Practices show how a practice approach can help us understand what societal transitions towards sustainability involve, and how they might be achieved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135094027
• Artikelnr.: 38247971

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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