Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience; the Social Organisation of Normality

By S. Burg. 2004

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Citations in the corpus

• Environmental Impacts of Products: A Detailed Review of Studies (2006, methodology): “We refer further to, for example, work by Shove (2003), Segal (1999), and Tukker and Tischner (2006).”
• Air-conditioning Australian households: The impact of dynamic peak pricing (2010, background): “…and Fowler, 2009), understandings of health and hygiene (Crowley, 2001), changing clothing conventions, the decline of the afternoon siesta (Shove, 2003), preferences for particular types of ‘air’ (Heschong, 1979), desires and beliefs about homogenous and natural environments (Lovins,…”
• Policies for sustainable consumption (2003, background): “The process of socialisation of these norms is itself complex one, often involving incremental changes over long historical periods (Shove 2003).”
• Negotiating everyday life: The role of energy and water consumption feedback (2011, background): “Shove (2003) demonstrates how expectations of comfort and cleanliness have been subjected to distinctive forms of standardization (in terms of what counts as ‘normal’) and escalation (i.e. the ratcheting up of demand) in recent centuries.”
• Conceptualising energy use and energy poverty using a capabilities framework (2016, background): “Where a weekly bath would have once seemed normal, the frequency of bodily washing needed in order to be free of stigma and shame is now much greater, with implications for hot water demand (see Shove, 2003).”
• Field Studies of Indoor Thermal Comfort and the Progress of the Adaptive Approach (2007, background): “It becomes a matter of social custom, different temperatures being characteristic of different societies both historically and geographically (Shove, 2003).”
• Peak electricity demand and social practice theories: Reframing the role of change agents in the energy sector (2012, background): “Thinking within the domain of the home, changing housing designs and infrastructures have played a critical role in normalising air-conditioning appliances to produce new practices of household cooling (Ackermann 2002; Shove 2003).”
• Gender and energy: domestic inequities reconsidered (2019, background): “However, such arguments have been strongly critiqued for failing to account for the historical, socio-cultural and political construction of gender and thermal comfort (Chappells & Shove, 2005; Healy, 2008; Shove, 2003; Wilhite, 2009).”