Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans

Dr Cecily Maller is a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia.Associate Professor Yolande Strengers is a Principal Research Fellow and co-leader of the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia.

• 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?.