Infrastructures in Practice (eBook, ePUB)

The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies
Redaktion: Shove, Elizabeth; Trentmann, Frank

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Infrastructures in practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible - at the same time, their design and day-to-day operation depends on what people do at home and at work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351106153
• Artikelnr.: 58401695

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and Principal Investigator of the DEMAND Centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand), funded by the Research Councils UK. She has written about the dynamics of social practice, infrastructures, material culture and consumption including The Dynamics of Social Practice: everyday life and how it changes with Mika Pantzar and Matt Watson (Sage, 2012) and The Nexus of practices: connections, constellations and practitioners, edited with Allison Hui and Theodore Schatzki (Routledge, 2017). Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and also at the Consumer Society Research Centre, University of Helsinki. He was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the 'Material Cultures of Energy' project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK and is also a member of the research centre DEMAND. His latest book is Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Penguin, 2016) with several foreign translations.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Evolving Infrastructures 1. Introduction
Elizabeth Shove
Frank Trentmann and Matt Watson 2. Infrastructures
Practices and the Dynamics of Demand
Olivier Coutard and Elizabeth Shove Part II: Varieties of Infrastructures 3. Wires
Conor Harrison 4. Situating Electrification: Examples of Infrastructure-Practice Dynamics from Thailand and Laos
Mattijs Smits 5. Chopping
Stacking and Burning Wood: Rhythms and Variations in Provision
Jenny Rinkinen 6. Self-Sufficiency in Architectural and Urban Projects: Toward Small-Pipe Engineering?
Fanny Lopez Part III: Standards
Planning
Adaptation 7. The Office: How Standards Define 'Normal' Design Practices and Work Infrastructures
Noel Cass
James Faulconbridge and John Connaughton
8. The Construction of Central Heating in Britain
Anna Carlsson-Hyslop 9. District Heating in Belgrade: The Politics of Provision
Charlotte Johnson 10. Unleashing the Internet: The Normalisation of Wireless Connectivity
Janine Morley 11. Making Space for the Car at Home: Planning
Priorities and Practices
Nicola Spurling Part IV: Drawing Boundaries and Managing Networks: State
Market and Designers 12. Contentious Interfaces: Exploring the Junction between Collective Provision and Individual Consumption
Catherine Grandclément
Magali Pierre
Elizabeth Shove and Alain Nadaï 13. The French Electricity Smart Meter: Reconfiguring Consumers and Providers
Aude Danieli Part V: Steering
Managing and Disrupting Demand 14. Co-Constituting Supply and Demand: Managing Electricity in Two Neighbouring Control Rooms
Antti Silvast 15. Prices as Instruments of Demand Management: Interpreting the Signals
Yolande Strengers 16. Disruption in and across Time
Heather Chappells and Frank Trentmann
17. Infrastructures in Practice: Implications for the Future
Elizabeth Shove
Matt Watson and Frank Trentmann