Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability

This book extends and enriches the possibilities for social practice theories to inform sustainability programs and policies seeking to achieve social change. More specially, it documents how social practice theories could be used to inform relevant methods and strategies for intervention. In doing so it differs from existing work because it directly tackles a key criticism directed at social practice theorists that to date has remained largely unchallenged.

Introduction Part 1: Interventions in Theory 1. Practices, governance and sustainability 2. Linking low carbon policy and social practice 3. Beyond individual responsibility: Social practice, capabilities and the right to environmentally sustainable ways of living Part 2: Intervening through policies and programs 4. Beyond behaviour change: Practical applications of social practice theory in behaviour change programs 5. Interventions in practices: Sustainable mobility policies in England 6. Governing and governed by practices: Exploring interventions in low-carbon housing policy and practice 7. Smart grids and the governing of energy use: Reconfiguring practices? 8. The practices of material divestment: Extending the life of domestic durable goods Part 3: Innovative interventions 9. Resurrecting sustainable practices: Using memories of the past to intervene in the future 10. Flow and intervention in everyday life: Situating practices 11. Methods as intervention: Intervening in practice through quantitative and mixed methodologies Conclusion: Transforming practice interventions