Practice Theory and the Biosocial

Microbes, Matter and Milieu

Elizabeth Shove, Stanley Blue, Mike P. Kelly (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

118 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-339-5 (ISBN)

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From urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics, this book develops an account of how previous and present arrangements make some futures more likely than others. By demonstrating the relevance of social and practice theories, this study considers questions about how bacteria, viruses, microscopic materials and societies develop in tandem.

Practice Theory and the Biosocial - Microbes, Matter and Milieu shows what recent developments in social theory bring to questions about how bacteria, viruses, microscopic materials and societies develop in tandem. The examples discussed – from urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics –develop an account of how previous and present arrangements make some futures more likely than others and how unequal patterns of exposure and entanglement arise. This book aims to demonstrate the relevance of social and practice theories by overcoming classic distinctions between the very small and the very large, between agency and structure, and between nature and culture.

Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and Fellow of the British Academy. She was co-director of the DEMAND Centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand) from 2013-2019. Elizabeth has written, co-authored or edited numerous books and papers, including Connecting Practices: Large Topics in Society and Social Theory, the Nexus of Practices (Taylor and Francis, 2022), and The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How It Changes (SAGE, 2012).

Introduction: Starting Points

Part I: Encounters and Exposures

Chapter 1. Separation and Concentration: Water Infrastructures in Practice

Chapter 2. Contagion and Circulation: How Infectious Diseases Spread

Part II: Entanglement and Intermingling

Chapter 3. Recursive Relations and Spatial Distributions: Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance in Practice

Chapter 4. Passing Through and Passing On: Beyond Embodiment

Part III: Differences and Directions

Chapter 5. Qualities and Inequalities: The Air We Breathe

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2026
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-83695-339-9 / 1836953399
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-339-5 / 9781836953395
Zustand	Neuware