Entangled Practices: Governance, Sustainable Technologies, and Energy Consumption
Entangled Practices: Governance, Sustainable Technologies, and Energy Consumption
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错综复杂的实践：治理、可持续技术和能源消耗
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2014
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I. Shaw
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R. Ozaki;I. Shaw
在这篇文章中，我们及时介绍了可持续技术如何与文化实践纠缠在一起，从而共同进化，影响能源消耗。在这样做的过程中，我们批评了英国当前在能源更新和碳减排方面采取的政策。我们调查社会住房部门实施环境政策倡议的努力的有效性，这些倡议采用技术驱动的方法。通过考察社会住房居民如何将能源消耗作为国内实践的一部分，我们确定了住房协会影响能源消耗的战略与居民将可持续技术纳入日常实践的方式之间的紧张关系。我们的发现揭示了可持续技术是如何被纳入既定实践的：居民创造性地开发新的常规战略，以适应新技术的日常生活。我们认为，通过技术驱动的方法来实现“行为改变”的政策努力存在局限性。这种方法忽略了实践是如何纠缠在一起的，从而影响了能源消耗。
In this article we provide a timely account of how sustainable technologies become entangled with cultural practices and thus co-evolve, influencing energy consumption. In doing so, we critique the approach current UK policy takes towards energy renewal and carbon reduction. We investigate the effectiveness of the social housing sector’s efforts to implement environmental policy initiatives that use a technology-driven approach. By looking at how social housing residents consume energy as part of domestic practices, we identify tensions between strategies to influence energy consumption by a housing association, and the ways residents incorporate sustainable technologies into everyday practices. Our findings reveal how sustainable technologies become enrolled in established practices: residents creatively develop novel routine strategies to accommodate new technologies to their daily routines. We contend that policy efforts to engender ‘behaviour change’ through a technology-driven approach have limitations. This approach ignores how practices become entangled, affecting energy consumption.