Assembling and Governing Habits

Managing or changing habits is essential for addressing climate change, waste management, travel practices, and crowd control. "Assembling and Governing Habits" explores how habits are governed through knowledge practices and technologies, focusing on how habit discourses have informed expertise, how habits are acted on as infrastructures, and how they are regulated in urban life. The book is written in a clear and direct style and will appeal to students and scholars in cultural studies, sociology, cultural geography, history of the sciences, and posthuman studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The growing importance of managing or altering habits is evident across a wide array of urgent contemporary issues, including climate change, waste management, travel practices, and crowd control. Managing and Governing Habits delves into the multifaceted ways in which habits are governed through the knowledge practices and technologies that have been applied to them. This comprehensive volume addresses three primary concerns. The first explores how the habit discourses proposed by various disciplines have influenced the ways in which different forms of expertise have shaped the management and change of habits to achieve specific social objectives. The second examines how habits are enacted as components of infrastructures that constitute the interfaces through which technical systems, human behaviors, and environments interact simultaneously. The third focuses on the specific ways in which habit discourses and habit infrastructures are brought together in the regulation of "city habits," which refer to habits with distinctive qualities resulting from the specific conditions of urban life and which, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, have experienced significant disruptions. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cultural studies, sociology, cultural geography, the history of sciences, and posthuman studies.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367607944