Elizabeth Shove

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a selection of concepts drawn from recent debates in science and technology studies and consumption theory with the aim of initiating an inter- disciplinary conversation about how designed artefacts are configured and appropriated and about how they structure the social practices and situations of which they are a part.

TL;DR: There are new questions to be found in the shadows of innovation studies that are important for academics and policy makers interested in developing and promoting more sustainable sociotechnical systems, aspects of which are foreshadowed by ways of the past.

TL;DR: The first two chapters deal with fundamental problems of definition and change as mentioned in this paper, and the first two are concerned with the importance of formalisation and coordination of compound practices, and the second two are devoted to a discussion of what sort of a practice is eating.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the kitchen as an "orchestrating concept" and show how materials, images, and forms of competence "hang together" at different points in time and how kitchen regimes are formed.