Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture

Description

Everyday practice and the production and consumption of time / Elizabeth Shove — Timespace and the organization of social life / Ted Schatzki — Re-ordering temporal rhythms : coordinating daily practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000 / Dale Southerton — Disruption is normal : blackouts, breakdowns and the elasticity of everyday life / Frank Trentmann — My soul for a seat : commuting and the routines of mobility / Tom O’Dell — Routines : made and unmade / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren — Calendars and clocks : cycles of horticultural commerce in nineteenth-century America / Marina Moskowitz — Fads, fashions and ’real’ innovation : novelties and social change / Jukka Gronow — The edge of agency : routine, habits and volition / Richard Wilk — Buying time / Daniel Miller — Seasonal and commercial rhythms of domestic consumption : a Japanese case study / Inge Daniels — Special and ordinary times : tea in motion / Güliz Ger and Olga Kravets — Making time : reciprocal object relations and the self-legitimizing time of wooden boating / Mikko Jalas — The ethics of routine : consciousness, tedium and value / Don Slater.

• Author: Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann, Richard Wilk
• Publisher: Berg
• Published: 2009-10-15
• Pages: 250
• ISBN-13: 9781847883643