Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond behaviour change
Redaktion: Strengers, Yolande; Maller, Cecily

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book extends and enriches the possibilities for social practice theories to inform sustainability programs and policies seeking to achieve social change. More specially, it documents how social practice theories could be used to inform relevant methods and strategies for intervention. In doing so it differs from existing work because it directly tackles a key criticism directed at social practice theorists that to date has remained largely unchallenged.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317810797
• Artikelnr.: 41836038

Autorenporträt

Yolande Strengers is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program in the Centre for Urban Research. Cecily Maller is a Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program in the Centre for Urban Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Interventions in Theory 1. Practices, governance and sustainability 2. Linking low carbon policy and social practice 3. Beyond individual responsibility: Social practice, capabilities and the right to environmentally sustainable ways of living Part 2: Intervening through policies and programs 4. Beyond behaviour change: Practical applications of social practice theory in behaviour change programs 5. Interventions in practices: Sustainable mobility policies in England 6. Governing and governed by practices: Exploring interventions in low-carbon housing policy and practice 7. Smart grids and the governing of energy use: Reconfiguring practices? 8. The practices of material divestment: Extending the life of domestic durable goods Part 3: Innovative interventions 9. Resurrecting sustainable practices: Using memories of the past to intervene in the future 10. Flow and intervention in everyday life: Situating practices 11. Methods as intervention: Intervening in practice through quantitative and mixed methodologies Conclusion: Transforming practice interventions

Rezensionen

This book brings together thinkers at the forefront of applying practice theory to the challenges of moving society towards sustainability. It not only consolidates practice theory's critique of conventional approaches to changing what people do, but points towards alternative ways of thinking through how change can be effected.

Matt Watson, University of Sheffield, UK

How can practices be made, unmade or retrieved from dormancy to help us shift towards sustainability? How can social practice scholarship help rethink intervention in policy and governance? Bringing together provocative discussions from established and emerging voices, this book itself makes a decisive intervention in our responses to the climate change challenge.

Lesley Head, University of Wollongong, Australia

A profoundly important book. Playing politics with methods and social practice theory, this book challenges conventional sustainability discourse based on individuals' behavioural change. It convincingly demonstrates different pathways for analysis and alternative avenues for intervention, governance and change.

Mika Pantzar, Helsinki University, Finland