Infrastructures in Practice

Shove, Elizabeth; Trentmann, Frank

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“…In line with this, recent studies have considered economics in everyday life and have given explanations for how prices may influence practices in ways other than in an economically rational approach [31][32][33][34]. For instance, Strengers argued that price can convey meanings to consumers, for instance, meanings of scarcity or abundance [34]. In our case, the meaning that is conveyed by the price difference is related to questions of self-sufficiency; using one's produced electricity is given meaning through the difference in price between what prosumers can sell electricity for and what prosumers must pay for the electricity they buy.…”

Section: Amount Of and Reasons For Time-shifting And Self-consumptionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Thus, the metering scheme makes a difference; however, the qualitative interviews revealed that this should not be understood in a simple rational economic sense. In line with this, recent studies have considered economics in everyday life and have given explanations for how prices may influence practices in ways other than in an economically rational approach [31][32][33][34]. For instance, Strengers argued that price can convey meanings to consumers, for instance, meanings of scarcity or abundance [34].…”

Section: Amount Of and Reasons For Time-shifting And Self-consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Danish PV Prosumers’ Time-Shifting of Energy-Consuming Everyday Practices

2020

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Consumer engagement in the energy system is necessary to ensure a low-carbon transition. However, this has proved difficult because consumers are engaged in pursuing everyday practices rather than focusing on abstract questions of energy. Recent studies have suggested that being a prosumer can make a difference. This paper builds on survey data from a representative sample of 2505 photovoltaic (PV) owners in Denmark combined with 12 qualitative in-depth interviews. The results indicate that PV owners consider that they have become more concerned about energy consumption and adjust the timing of their everyday practices to their production. Thus, 67% of the households ‘often’ or ‘always’ time-shift the use of washing machines to their production. The extent to which households time-shift is strongly related to their net-metering scheme. Thus, 75% of the households on hourly metering stated that they ‘to some’ or to ‘a great extent’ adjust their consumption, compared to only 26% of the households on annual metering. This financial effect is interpreted in an everyday life context where financial gain transfers meanings of self-sufficiency and sustainability, rather than primarily being viewed as rational economic behaviour. The conclusion discusses the policy implications of methods to engage the consumer.

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Section: Amount Of and Reasons For Time-shifting And Self-consumptionmentioning

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Danish PV Prosumers’ Time-Shifting of Energy-Consuming Everyday Practices

2020

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“…and by their interdependencies with material infrastructures and the ecological world-system (cf. Shove, 2016; Elder-Vass, 2017). Thus, if different trajectories of sustainability are to be analyzed, one has to ask which enabling and constraining socio-material structures suggest which practices to economic, political, and civil-society actors, and which affective/moral imaginaries these practices are associated with.…”

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Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts

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2021

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The increased awareness of the exploitation of resources, as well as the negative ecological consequences of the modern way of life, has made sustainability a central guiding concept of social change in the 21st century. Sustainability has taken the form of a largely undisputed normative model of development, behind which, however, very different conceptions of the future are concealed: from the attempt to initiate a major socio-ecological transformation, through modernization processes, to control practices in a state of emergency. This special issue aims at these practices but is not primarily concerned with sustainability as a normative guiding idea that can just be pursued. However, a sociology of sustainability has to ask which conflictual spaces of possibility for socioeconomic change open up when very different ideas of a sustainable future are in conflict with each other. Three ideal-typical trajectories or futures of sustainability emerge, which can be theoretically grasped with the terms modernization, transformation and control. These three concepts of a sustainable future can also be found in the ambivalent imaginations, practices and structures of various constellations of actors.

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“…They enable and subtly order the continuous production of social realities. This specific power of ‘conducting conduct’ ( Foucault, 1982 ) is appreciated by ‘infrastructural inversion’ ( Bowker, 1994 ), by bringing infrastructures back above ground by means of focusing attention on their construction and ordering effects ( Barlösius, 2019 ; Bowker et al, 2009 ; Bueger, 2015 ; Opitz and Tellmann, 2015 ; Shove and Trentmann, 2018 ).…”

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Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation

2021

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We study efforts at promoting deliberative mini-publics as a model of democracy. Our focus is on practices supporting the circulation of know-how for doing mini-publics. In this paper we center on the building of infrastructures for knowledge exchange in and around a network known as Democracy R&D. This is a network of mini-publics practitioners from around the world with the declared goal of adding momentum to democratic innovation by enhancing translocal connections, community building, and knowledge. We look at how the network is organized, how online communication platforms are installed, and how observatory devices draw dispersed practices together into a shared frame of mutual learning and collective action. How do such practices configure the ways in which knowledge can flow across sites? How do they constitute an instrument space, a translocal assemblage of knowing and doing democracy by means of deliberative mini-publics? Using concepts like scopic media and centers of calculation, we discuss these practices for how they enable and constrain the circulation of know-how, configure processes of mutual learning, shape the translocal innovation process, and thus, at a distance, also prefigure local ways of knowing and doing politics.

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Infrastructures in Practice

Abstract: Accepted VersionCass, N., Faulconbridge, J. and Connaughton, J. (2018) The office: how standards define 'normal' design practices and work infrastructures.

Cited by 49 publications

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Danish PV Prosumers’ Time-Shifting of Energy-Consuming Everyday Practices

Danish PV Prosumers’ Time-Shifting of Energy-Consuming Everyday Practices

Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts

Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation

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