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