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Comfort, cleanliness and convenience : the social organization of normality / Elizabeth Shove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-
- Series:
- New technologies/new cultures series 1472-2895
- New technologies/new cultures series, 1472-2895
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lifestyles.
- Health behavior.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Consumers--Psychology.
- Consumers.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : BERG, 2003.
- Contents:
- Consumption, everyday life and sustainability
- Natural resources and consumer choices
- Cycles of consumption and escalators of demand
- Trajectories and transitions
- Reconfiguring practice
- Method and approach
- The science of comfort: constructing normality
- Defining comfort: a state of mind, an attribute or an achievement?
- Playing God with the indoor climate
- Quantifying comfort
- Qualifying comfort
- Constructing comfort
- The co-evolution of comfort: interdependence and innovation
- Dimensions and dynamics
- Difference and coherence: acquiring and using air-conditioning
- Diffusion, diversity and lighting
- Comfort as collective practice: the siesta
- Reconfiguring comfort
- Regimes of comfort: systems in transition
- Levels, layers and landscapes
- Convergence, abstraction and reversal
- Escalating and standardizing concepts of comfort
- Introducing cleanliness: morality, technology and practice
- Questions of cleanliness
- Morality, technology and practice
- Humours, miasmas and germs
- Dirt and discrimination
- Commodifying cleanliness
- Qualifying cleanliness
- Behind the bathroom door: revolving rationales
- Bathroom consumption
- Reasons and rationales
- Understanding bathing and showering
- Bathtime stories
- Power showering in theory and practice
- Laundering: a system of systems
- Laundering as work
- Escalating standards or redefining service?
- Why wash?
- What is washed?
- When is the laundry done?
- What does 'doing the laundry' involve?
- The laundry as a system of systems
- Laundry habits: integrating practices
- Classifications and categories
- Innovation and tradition
- Millers of meaning and practice
- System and service
- Reconsidering cleanliness
- Reconfiguring routine
- Redefining service
- Convenience, co-ordination and convention
- Convenience and the pace of life
- Co-ordination and fragmentation
- Convenience devices
- Rush and calm
- Convenience and convention
- Ratchets, pinwheels, cogs and spirals
- Regimes, services and the reorganization of normality
- Models and mechanisms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859736254
- 1859736300
- OCLC:
- 51483368
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