Elizabeth Shove is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is co-author of The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How it Changes (SAGE, 2012) and co-editor of The Nexus of Practices: Connections, Constellations, Practitioners (Routledge, 2016). Her other books include Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice (Routledge, 2020), Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector (Routledge, 2019), and Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies (Routledge, 2018).

• 1. Introduction Part I: Spreading Out 2. Infusing 3. Circulating Part II: Amalgamating and Adapting 4. Merging and Emerging 5. Cross-referencing 6. Interweaving Part III: Textures of Advantage 7. Accumulating 8. Dividing 9. Joining up the dots