Matthew Watson

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

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the potential of theories of practice to inform the socio-technical transition required to adequately decarbonise the UK transport system and propose a system of practice approach to illuminate systemic change in transport.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the recursive relation between products, projects and practices with reference to do-it-yourself (DIY) and home improvement, an important area of craft consumption and a field in which consumers are actively and creatively engaged in integrating and transforming complex arrays of material goods.

TL;DR: Two significant realms of social anxiety, visible in the discourses of media and public policy, potentially pull practices of home food provisioning in conflicting directions as discussed by the authors, leading to conflicting directions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the task of understanding and analysing car dependence, using this as a case through which to introduce and explore what we take to be central but underdeveloped questions about how infrastructures and complexes of social practice connect across space and time.