TY - JOUR
AU - Southerton, Dale
AB - This article considers the increasing popularity of showering in the UK. We usethis case as a means of exploring some of the dimensions and dynamics ofeveryday practice. Drawing upon a range of documentary evidence, we begin bysketching three possible explanations for the current constitution of showeringas a private, increasingly resource-intensive routine. We begin by reviewing thechanging infrastructural, technological, rhetorical and moral positioning ofshowering. We then consider how the multiple and contingent constituents ofshowering are arranged and re-arranged in and through the practice itself. Intaking this approach, we address a number of more abstract questions about therelation between practices, technologies and infrastructures and about whatthese relationships mean for the fixity and fluidity of ordinary routines andfor associated patterns of consumption. The result is a method that allows us toanalyse the ways in which material cultures and conventions are reproduced andtransformed. This has practical implications for those seeking to contain theenvironmental consequences of resource-intensive practices.
TI - Explaining Showering: A Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice
JF - Sociological Research Online
DO - 10.5153/sro.1100
DA - 2005-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/explaining-showering-a-discussion-of-the-material-conventional-and-KU29j45vrB
SP - 101
EP - 113
VL - 10
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -