Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture Book

List of Tables and Figures vii

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction Elizabeth Shove Frank Trentmann Richard Wilk 1

Section I Time, Space and Practice

1 Everyday Practice and the Production and Consumption of Time Elizabeth Shove 17

2 Time space and the Organization of Social Life Ted Schatzki 35

3 Re-ordering Temporal Rhythms: Coordinating Daily Practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000 Dale Southerton 49

Section II Pace and Scale: Temporal Order and Disruption

4 Disruption is Normal: Blackouts, Breakdowns and the Elasticity of Everyday Life Frank Trentmann 67

5 My Soul for a Seat: Commuting and the Routines of Mobility Tom O'Dell 85

6 Routines - Made and Unmade Billy Ehn Orvar Lofgren 99

Section III Rhythms, Patterns and Temporal Cycles of Consumption

7 Calendars and Clocks: Cycles of Horticultural Commerce in Nineteenth-Century America Marina Moskowitz 115

8 Fads, Fashions and 'Real' Innovations: Novelties and Social Change Jukka Gronow 129

9 The Edge of Agency. Routines, Habits and Volition Richard Wilk 143

Section IV The Temporalities of Stuff

10 Buying Time Daniel Miller 157

11 Seasonal and Commercial Rhythms of Domestic Consumption: A Japanese Case Study Inge Daniels 171

12 Special and Ordinary Times: Tea in Motion G¨liz Ger Olga Kravets 189

13 Making Time: Reciprocal Object Relations and the Self-legitimizing Time of Wooden Boating Mikko Jalas 203

14 The Ethics of Routine: Consciousness, Tedium and Value Don Slater 217

Index 231