Elizabeth Shove is professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. She has written widely on theories of practice, technology, consumption, environment and everyday life. She is co editor (with Frank Trentmann and Rick Wilk) of Time, consumption and everyday life: practices, materiality and culture, (Berg, 2009) ; co author, with Matt Watson, Martin Hand and Jack Ingram, of The Design of Everyday Life (Berg, 2007) and of Infrastructures of Consumption: Restructuring the Utility Industries, (Earthscan, 2005), with Bas van Vliet and Heather Chappells, and author of Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: the social organization of normality (Berg, 2003).

Mika Pantzar is research professor at the National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki. His current project, "The co-production of innovations - Towards an integrative theory of practice" is funded by the Academy of Finland and Helsinki School of Economics. Mika has published many articles in consumer research, design and technology studies, the rhetoric of economic policy, future studies and systems research, for example: Tools or toys. Inventing the Need for Domestic Appliances in Postwar and Postmodern Finland (Journal of Advertising, vol. 32, no. 1 (Spring 2003), p. 81-91), Domestication of Everyday Life Technology: Dynamic Views on the Social Histories of Artifacts (Design Issues, Vol 13, No. 3, (Autumn 1997): 52-65) and The growth of product variety - a myth? (Journal of Consumer Studies and Home Economics, (1992) Vol. 16, No. 4: 345-362). He has written two books in Finnish: Future Home (Otava, 2000) and Domestication of Technology (Tammi, 1996), which received awards from the Finnish Ministry of Education and the Finnish Science Council.

Matt Watson is Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Sheffield. In addressing empirical themes including consumption, waste and mobility, his work engages with a range of literatures including theorisations of practice and everyday life, science and technology and of the structures and processes of governing. He is co author, with Elizabeth Shove, Martin Hand and Jack Ingram, of The Design of Everyday Life (Berg, 2007).

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: Networks and Communities
Capture and Commitment: Careers and Carriers
Collapse and Transformation: The Dynamics of Defection
Daily Paths, Life Paths and Dominant Projects
Connections Between Practices
Bundles and Complexes
Collaboration and Competition
Selection and Integration
Coordinating Daily Life
Circuits of Reproduction
Monitoring Practices-as-Performances
Monitoring Practices-as-Entities
Cross-Referencing Practices-as-Performances
Cross-Referencing Practices-as-Entities
Aggregation
Elements of Coordination
Intersecting Circuits
Representing the Dynamics of Social Practice
Representing Elements and Practices
Characterizing Circulation
Competition, Transformation and Convergence
Reproducing Elements, Practices and Relations between Them
Time and Practice
Space and Practice
Dominant Projects and Power
Promoting Transitions in Practice
Climate Change and Behaviour Change
Basis of Action
Processes of Change
Positioning Policy
Transferable Lessons
Practice Theory and Climate Change Policy
Configuring Elements of Practice
Configuring Relations between Practices
Configuring Careers: Carriers and Practices
Configuring Connections
Practice Oriented Policy Making