Books

Shove, E. (2023) Connecting Practices, London: Routledge. Link to chapter abstracts.

Rinkinen, J., Shove, E. and Marsden, G. (2020) Conceptualising Demand: a distinctive approach to consumption and practice, London: Routledge.  Click on the image for more details. Click here to watch the film of the launch, July 2020.   

Rinkinen, J., Shove, E. and Torriti, J. (Eds) (2019) Energy Fables: Challenging ideas in the energy sector.  Click on the image to learn more.

Shove, E. and Trentmann, F. (Eds) (2018) IInfrastructures in Practice: the dynamics of demand in networked societies. London: Routledge.  You can read my chapter with Olivier Coutard on Infrastructures, practices and the dynamics of demand.

Hui, A. Shove, E. and Schatzki, T. (Eds) (2017) The Nexus of Practices: Connections, constellations, practitioners, London: Routledge.
You can read the Introduction and my chapter, ‘Matters of Practice’ You can also see a very short film of the Nexus book launch, involving a bottle of champagne, some string and a bucket of water.

Shove, E. and Spurling, N. (Eds) (2013) Sustainable Practices: Social theory and climate change, London: Routledge,

Shove, E., Pantzar, M. and Watson, M. (2012), The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday life and how it changes, London: Sage.

Shove, E., Trentmann, F. and Wilk, R. (eds) (2009) Time, Consumption and Everyday Life, Oxford, Berg.

Shove, E., Chappells, H. and Lutzenhiser, L. (eds) (2009) Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society London, Routledge.

Shove, E, Watson, M., Hand, M. and Ingram, J. (2007) The Design of Everyday Life Oxford: Berg.

van Vliet, B., Chappells, H., and Shove, E. (2005), Infrastructures of Consumption, London: Earthscan.

Pantzar, M. and Shove, E. (Eds), (2005) Manufacturing Leisure, Helsinki: NCRC.  Available as pdf.

Shove, E, (2003) Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: the Social Organization of Normality, Oxford: Berg.

Redclift, M., Shove, E., van der Meulen, B. and Raman, S., (2000) Social Environmental Research in the European Union: Research networks and new agendas, Cheltenham: Elgar.

Guy, S. and Shove, E. (2000) A Sociology of Energy, Buildings and the Environment: Constructing Knowledge, Designing Practice, London: Routledge.