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

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?.