Explaining Showering: A Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice
Explaining Showering: A Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice
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解释淋浴：对实践的物质、传统和时间维度的讨论
DOI：
10.5153/sro.1100
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
D. Southerton
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文献类型：
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作者：
M. Hand;E. Shove;D. Southerton
这篇文章认为在英国淋浴越来越受欢迎。我们使用这个案例作为探索日常实践的一些维度和动态的手段。根据一系列的文件证据，我们开始勾勒三个可能的解释，目前宪法的淋浴作为一个私人的，越来越多的资源密集型例程。我们开始通过审查不断变化的基础设施，技术，修辞和道德定位淋浴。然后，我们考虑淋浴的多重和偶然的成分是如何安排和重新安排，并通过实践本身。在采取这种方法时，我们要解决一些更抽象的问题，即实践、技术和基础设施之间的关系，以及这些关系对日常生活的固定性和流动性以及相关的消费模式意味着什么。其结果是一种方法，使我们能够分析的方式，物质文化和习俗的复制和改造。这对那些试图控制资源密集型做法的环境后果的人具有实际影响。
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 documentary evidence, we begin by sketching three possible explanations for the current constitution of showering as a private, increasingly resource-intensive routine. We begin by reviewing the changing infrastructural, technological, rhetorical and moral positioning of showering. We then consider how the multiple and contingent constituents of showering are arranged and re-arranged in and through the practice itself. In taking this approach, we address a number of more abstract questions about the relation between practices, technologies and infrastructures and about what these relationships mean for the fixity and fluidity of ordinary routines and for associated patterns of consumption. The result is a method that allows us to analyse the ways in which material cultures and conventions are reproduced and transformed. This has practical implications for those seeking to contain the environmental consequences of resource-intensive practices.