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Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality (New Technologies/New Cultures)
April 24, 2004, Berg Publishers
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1859736300 9781859736302
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Comfort, cleanliness and convenience: the social organization of normality
2003, BERG
in English
1859736254 9781859736258
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Table of Contents
Consumption, everyday life and sustainability
Natural resources and consumer choices
Cycles of consumption and escalators of demand
Trajectories and transitions
Reconfiguring practice
Method and approach
The science of comfort: constructing normality
Defining comfort: a state of mind, an attribute or an achievement?
Playing God with the indoor climate
Quantifying comfort
Qualifying comfort
Constructing comfort
The co-evolution of comfort: interdependence and innovation
Dimensions and dynamics
Difference and coherence: acquiring and using air-conditioning
Diffusion, diversity and lighting
Comfort as collective practice: the siesta
Reconfiguring comfort
Regimes of comfort: systems in transition
Levels, layers and landscapes
Convergence, abstraction and reversal
Escalating and standardizing concepts of comfort
Introducing cleanliness: morality, technology and practice
Questions of cleanliness
Morality, technology and practice
Humours, miasmas and germs
Dirt and discrimination
Commodifying cleanliness
Qualifying cleanliness
Behind the bathroom door: revolving rationales
Bathroom consumption
Reasons and rationales
Understanding bathing and showering
Bathtime stories
Power showering in theory and practice
Laundering: a system of systems
Laundering as work
Escalating standards or redefining service?
Why wash?
What is washed?
When is the laundry done?
What does 'doing the laundry' involve?
The laundry as a system of systems
Laundry habits: integrating practices
Classifications and categories
Innovation and tradition
Millers of meaning and practice
System and service
Reconsidering cleanliness
Reconfiguring routine
Redefining service
Convenience, co-ordination and convention
Convenience and the pace of life
Co-ordination and fragmentation
Convenience devices
Rush and calm
Convenience and convention
Ratchets, pinwheels, cogs and spirals
Regimes, services and the reorganization of normality
Models and mechanisms.
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