Overview
- Draws together an engaging range of authors and topics to explore a field of theory which is gaining a degree of dominance in various fields of social theory and research
- Draws on relevant debates in relational and post-humanist thinking
- Includes a wide range of empirically rich and varied chapters
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Nature, Materiality and Processes
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Technologies, Automation and Performativity
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Reviews
“The chapters in this volume are like drawings in an artist’s sketchbook, each revealing aspects of the many and changing interactions of which social practices are made.” (Professor Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University, UK)
“This thought provoking book addresses a central issue of contemporary practice theories: do practices need humans to exist? Can non-humans and more than human actants perform practices? By offering a range of empirically grounded answers the volume questions the inherent residual humanism of some versions of practice theory and offers original and innovative ways to overcome it.” (Professor Davide Nicolini, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Associate Professor Yolande Strengers is a Principal Research Fellow and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans
Book Subtitle: Nature, Materials and Technologies
Editors: Cecily Maller, Yolande Strengers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92189-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92188-4Published: 07 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06381-8Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92189-1Published: 20 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 264
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Environmental Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Social Theory, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction