Comfort in a low carbon society. (2008)
Shove, Elizabeth, Chappells, Heather, Lutzenhiser, Loren, Hackett, Bruce
Social exclusion, mobility and access. (2005)
Cass, Noel;, Shove, Elizabeth;, Urry, John
Much of the literature on social exclusion ignores its 'spatial' or 'mobility' related aspects. This paper seeks to rectify this by examining the mobile processes and infrastructures of travel and...
Hand, Martin, Shove, Elizabeth, Southerton, Dale
This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of...
Hand, Martin;, Shove , Elizabeth;, Southerton, Dale.
This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of...
Chappells, Heather;, Shove , Elizabeth.
Vast quantities of energy are consumed in heating and cooling to provide what are now regarded as acceptable standards of thermal comfort. In the UK as in a number of other countries, there is a real...
Infrastructures of consumption : environmental innovation in the utility industries. (2005)
Vliet, Bas Van;, Chappells, Heather Mary;, Shove, Elizabeth.
Hand, Martin;, Shove, Elizabeth
It has long been recognized that users and consumers actively appropriate new products and technologies and assimilate them into existing regimes and frames of reference. Much less has been written...
Efficiency and Consumption: Technology and Practice. (2004)
It is probably true that energy policy has paid more attention to resources and resource efficiencies than to overall consumption. Partly because of this, more needs to be done to conceptualise the...
Converging conventions of comfort, cleanliness and convenience. (2003)
Many commentators analyse green consumption as if it were an expression of individual environmental commitment. Such approaches suppose that the adoption of more sustainable ways of life depends upon...
Principals, agents, actors and research programmes. (2003)
Research programmes appear to represent one of the more powerful instruments through which research funders (principals) steer and shape what researchers (agents) do. The fact that agents navigate...
SocRobust : final report (2002)
Laredo, Philippe, Jolivet, Eric, Shove, Elizabeth, Raman, Sujatha, Rip, Arie, Moors, Ellen, ...
This project concerns the management of especially risky and uncertain forms of innovation. More precisely, it concentrates on architectural or radical innovations which by their nature challenge...
The Social Worlds of Caravaning: Objects, Scripts and Practices (2001)
Southerton, D., Shove, Elizabeth, Warde, A., Deem, R.
This paper is about the part which objects play in scripting the practices and strategies of their users. Goffman uses the concept of script to make sense of the conventional ordering of social...
The Social Worlds of Caravaning: Objects, Scripts and Practices (2001)
Southerton, Dale, Shove, Elizabeth, Warde, Alan, Deem, Rosemary
This paper is about the part which objects play in scripting the practices and strategies of their users. Goffman uses the concept of script to make sense of the conventional ordering of social...
Users and unicorns: a discussion of mythical beasts in interactive science (2000)
The UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has placed considerable emphasis on the users of the research it supports. Researchers have in turn pointed to the potential uses of the work they...
Martin Hand, Elizabeth Shove, Dale Southerton
This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We use this case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics of everyday practice. Drawing upon a range of...
The Social Worlds of Caravaning: Objects, Scripts and Practices
Dale Southerton, Elizabeth Shove, Alan Warde, Rosemary Deem
This paper is about the part which objects play in scripting the practices and strategies of their users. Goffman uses the concept of script to make sense of the conventional ordering of social...