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List of Figures and Tables=xi

Acknowledgements=xiii

1. Consumption, Everyday Life and Sustainability=1

Natural Resources and Consumer Choices=4

Cycles of Consumption and Escalators of Demand=10

Trajectories and Transitions=12

Reconfiguring Practice=14

Method and Approach=16

2. The Science of Comfort:Constructing Normality=21

Defining Comfort:a State of Mind, an Attribute or an Achievement?=23

Playing God with the Indoor Climate=26

Quantifying Comfort=28

Qualifying Comfort=34

Constructing Comfort=40

3. The Co-evolution of Comfort:Interdependence and Innovation=43

Dimensions and Dynamics=46

Difference and Coherence:Acquiring and Using Air-conditioning=49

Diffusion, Diversity and Lighting=57

Comfort as Collective Practice:the Siesta=61

Reconfiguring Comfort=62

4. Regimes of Comfort:Systems in Transition=65

Levels, Layers and Landscapes=68

Convergence, Abstraction and Reversal=71

Escalating and Standardizing Concepts of Comfort=75

5. Introducing Cleanliness:Morality, Technology and Practice=79

Questions of Cleanliness=80

Morality, Technology and Practice=82

Humours, Miasmas and Germs=85

Dirt and Discrimination=88

Commodifying Cleanliness=89

Qualifying Cleanliness=90

6. Behind the Bathroom Door:Revolving Rationales=93

Bathroom Consumption=95

Reasons and Rationales=97

Understanding Bathing and Showering=106

Bath-time Stories=109

Power Showering in Theory and Practice=113

7. Laundering:A System of Systems=117

Laundering as Work=119

Escalating Standards or Redefining Service?=122

Why Wash?=123

What is Washed?=127

When is the Laundry Done?=129

What Does 'Doing the Laundry' Involve?=131

The Laundry as a System of Systems=133

8. Laundry Habits:Integrating Practices=139

Classifications and Categories=141

Innovation and Tradition=151

Millers of Meaning and Practice=155

9. System and Service=159

Reconsidering Cleanliness=160

Reconfiguring Routine=161

Redefining Service=164

10. Convenience, Co-ordination and Convention=169

Convenience and the Pace of Life=171

Co-ordination and Fragmentation=173

Convenience Devices=175

Rush and Calm=178

Convenience and Convention=180

11. Ratchets, Pinwheels, Cogs and Spirals=187

Regimes, Services and the Reorganization of Normality=188

Models and Mechanisms=194

Resetting the Agenda:Consumption, Everyday Life and Sustainability=198

Bibliography=201

Index=215

Figures

3.1. Three dimensions of co-evolution=48

3.2. Difference, de／revaluation and the co-evolution of objects and practices=52

3.3. Coherence, de／restabilization and the co-evolution of objects and systems=56

3.4. Co-evolution and the local configuration of standardized technologies=60

3.5. Reconfiguring comfort=63

4.1. The dynamics of socio-technical change=69

4.2. Reversing the irreversibilities=70

4.3. Shared landscapes, divergent regimes=71

4.4. Convergence, abstraction and reversal=74

6.1. Pinning bathing in place=112

7.1. A whirlpool model of laundry=134

7.2. Laundering as a system of systems=137

9.1. The cultivation of want and the naturalization of need=163

9.2. Integration routines=165

10.1. Collective and individual modes of co-ordination=181

10.2. Convenience, co-ordination and convention=183

11.1. Horizontal modes of integration=192

11.2. 'Vertical' and 'horizontal' theories combined=193

11.3. The ratchet=195

11.4. The pinwheel=195

11.5. Cogs in a system of systems=196

11.6. The spiral=196

11.7. Pathways of change=197

Tables

4.1. Two Cypriot homes=66

6.1. Dimensions and discourses of bathing=108