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The Centre for Transport Research and the Department of Sociology are pleased to announce a joint seminar on The Dynamics of Social Practice to be given by Prof. Elizabeth Shove of Lancaster University & the DEMAND Research Centre.
The Dynamics of Social Practice (Sage: 2012) sets out a distinctive method of conceptualising and analysing everyday life and how it changes, and demonstrates how such understanding might influence public policy. In this talk, Prof. Shove will introduce some of the key ideas around which the book is organised – for instance, that practices involve the ongoing integration of elements; that elements change all the time; that practices ‘recruit’ their carriers; that social practices intersect to form bundles and complexes, and that these are sustained and transformed through specific ‘circuits of reproduction’. She will also reflect on the ways in which these ideas have been taken up by academic researchers, and by consultants and policy makers in transport, public health and climate change.
Prof Elizabeth Shove is professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and co-director of the DEMAND Centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and DEMAND). She previously held an ESRC climate change leadership fellowship “Transitions in Practice: Climate Change and Everyday Life”. Her recent research focuses on issues of ordinary consumption, everyday technology, social practice and sustainability.