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Elizabeth Shove
Researcher at Lancaster University
Publications - 152
Citations - 19231
Elizabeth Shove is an academic researcher from Lancaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social practice & Energy policy. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 148 publications receiving 17258 citations.
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The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes
TL;DR: The Dynamics of Social Practice Introducing Theories of Practice Materials and Resources Sequence and Structure Making and Breaking Links Material, Competence and Meaning Car-Driving: Elements and Linkages Making Links Breaking Links Elements Between Practices Standardization and Diversity Individual and Collective Careers The Life of Elements Modes of Circulation Transportation and Access: Material Abstraction, Reversal and Migration: Competence Association and Classification: Meaning Packing and Unpacking Emergence, Disappearance and Persistence Recruitment, Defection and Reproduction First Encounters: Careers and Carriers Collapse and Transformation
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Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on what seems to be a yawning gulf between the potential contribution of the social sciences and the typically restricted models and assumptions and present a short and deliberately provocative paper.
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Caution! Transitions Ahead: Politics, Practice, and Sustainable Transition Management:
Elizabeth Shove,Gordon Walker +1 more
TL;DR: There is a growing recognition of the holistic, unavoidably interrelated nature of contemporary environmental problems and of the need for fresh approaches and forms of governance capable of engaging with complex challenges of this kind.
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Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality
TL;DR: Shove as discussed by the authors investigated the evolution of these changes, as well as the social meaning of the practices themselves, concluding that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces, and that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption.
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Consumers, Producers and Practices: Understanding the Invention and Reinvention of Nordic Walking
Elizabeth Shove,Mika Pantzar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that Nordic walking, a form of speed walking with two sticks, arise through the active and ongoing integration of images, artifacts and forms of competence, a process in which both consumers and producers are involved.