Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans Nature, Materials and Technologies /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Maller, Cecily (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Strengers, Yolande (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Human geography.; Environmental sociology.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Human Geography.; Environmental Sociology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Social Theory.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

The robots are coming! So too is the 'age of automation', the march of 'invasive' species, more intense natural disasters, and a potential cataclysm of other unprecedented events and phenomena of which we do not yet know, and cannot predict. This book is concerned with how to acc...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 Dynamic non-humans in a changing world
• PART I: Nature, materiality and processes
• Chapter 2 Thriving in the Anthropocene: understanding human-weed relations and invasive plant management using theories of practice
• Chapter 3 Seeing wood for the trees: placing biological processes within practices of heating and harvesting
• Chapter 4 'Dynamic' non-human animals in theories of practice: views from the subaltern
• Chapter 5 Dynamic bodies in theories of social practice: vibrant materials and more-than-human assemblages
• Chapter 6 Mobile drinking - bottled water practices and ontological politics
• Chapter 7 Immersed in thermal flows: heat as productive of and produced by social practices
• PART II: Technologies, automation and performativity
• Chapter 8 Displacement: attending to the role of things in theories of practice through design research
• Chapter 9 How software matters: connective tissue and self-driving cars
• Chapter 10 Automated artefacts as co-performers of social practices: washing machines, laundering and design
• Chapter 11 Robots and Roomba riders: non-human performers in theories of social practice
• Chapter 12 Automation, smart homes and symmetrical anthropology: non-humans as performers of practices?.