"This book explores fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how it is constituted, how it changes and how it might be steered. Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice explores five core propositions: that demand is derived from social practices,...

1. Learning in and across practices : enablement as subjectivation / Thomas Alkemeyer and Nikolaus Buschmann -- 2. Qualities of connective tissue in hospital life : how complexes of practices change / Stanley Blue and Nicola Spurling -- 3. Sociomateriality in posthuman practice theory / Silvia...

In less than a generation, air conditioning has spread around the world, increasing energy consumption and producing demand where none existed before. How has this come about? This article asks whether transition theories (and the multilevel perspective as an exemplar) are of value in addressing...