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Assembling and Governing Habits (Paperback)
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Assembling and Governing Habits (Paperback)
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The increasing significance of managing or changing habits is
evident across a range of pressing contemporary issues: climate
change, waste management, travel practices, and crowd control.
Assembling and Governing Habits engages with the diverse ways in
which habits are governed through the knowledge practices and
technologies that have been brought to bear on them. The volume
addresses three main concerns. The first focuses on how the habit
discourses proposed by a range of disciplines have informed the
ways in which different forms of expertise have shaped the ways in
which habits have been managed or changed to bring about specific
social objectives. The second concerns the ways in which habits are
acted on as aspects of infrastructures which constitute the
interfaces through which technical systems, human conducts and
environments are acted on simultaneously. The third concerns the
specific ways in which habit discourses and habit infrastructures
are brought together in the regulation of 'city habits': that is,
habits which have specific qualities arising out of the specific
conditions - the rhythms and densities - of urban life and ones
which, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been profoundly
disrupted. Written in a clear and direct style, the book will
appeal to students and scholars with an interest in cultural
studies, sociology, cultural geography, history of the sciences,
and posthuman studies.
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