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Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans

Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans Nature, Materials and Technologies

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Publisher's Synopsis

The robots are coming! So too is the 'age of automation', the march of 'invasive' species, more intense natural disasters, and a potential cataclysm of other unprecedented events and phenomena of which we do not yet know, and cannot predict. This book is concerned with how to account for these non-humans and their effects within theories of social practice. In particular, this provocative collection tackles contemporary debates about the roles, relations and agencies of constantly changing, disruptive, intelligent or otherwise 'dynamic' non-humans, such as weather, animals and automated devices. In doing so contributors challenge and take forward existing understandings of dynamic non-humans in theories of social practice by reconsidering their potential roles in everyday life. The book will benefit sociology, geography, science and technology studies, and human- (and animal-) computer interaction design scholars seeking to make sense of the complex entanglement of non-human phenomenaand things in the performance of social practices.

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Book information

ISBN: 9783319921884
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 303.483
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 490g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 18mm