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Sustainable Practices : Social Theory and Climate Change.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135094034
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.2/5
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Contents:
Front Cover -- Sustainable Practices -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Sustainable practices: social theory and climate change -- Part I: 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 II: The materials of practice -- 4. Transitions in the wrong direction?: Digital technologies and daily life -- 5. Mundane materials at work: paper in practice -- Part III: Sharing and circulation -- 6. Practices, movement and circulation: implications for sustainability -- 7. Sharing conventions: communities of practice and thermal comfort -- Part IV: Relations between practices -- 8. Building future systems of velomobility -- 9. The making of electric cycling -- 10. Extended bodies and the geometry of practices -- Part V: Sustainability, inequality and power -- 11. Power, sustainability and well being: an outsider's view -- 12. Inequality, sustainability and capability: locating justice in social practice -- Index.
Summary: 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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Front Cover -- Sustainable Practices -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Sustainable practices: social theory and climate change -- Part I: 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 II: The materials of practice -- 4. Transitions in the wrong direction?: Digital technologies and daily life -- 5. Mundane materials at work: paper in practice -- Part III: Sharing and circulation -- 6. Practices, movement and circulation: implications for sustainability -- 7. Sharing conventions: communities of practice and thermal comfort -- Part IV: Relations between practices -- 8. Building future systems of velomobility -- 9. The making of electric cycling -- 10. Extended bodies and the geometry of practices -- Part V: Sustainability, inequality and power -- 11. Power, sustainability and well being: an outsider's view -- 12. Inequality, sustainability and capability: locating justice in social practice -- Index.

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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