1 HOME CULTURES LTUR 1 HOME CULTURES HOME CULTURES 1 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3 PP 1–22 REPRINTS AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE PUBLISHERS. PHOTOCOPYING PERMITTED BY LICENSE ONLY © BERG 2004 PRINTED IN THE UK MARTIN HAND IS AN AS SSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTME MENT OF SOCIOLOGY AT QUEEN’S UNIVERS ERSITY, ONTARIO. HIS PRINCIPAL AREAS O EAS OF RESEARCH ARE DOMESTIC CULTURES ES OF TECHNOLOGY, THE SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, INTERNET CULTURE AND POLITICS, CONSUMPTION AND CULTURAL THEORY. ELIZABETH SHOVE IS A READER IN SOCIOLOGY AT LANCASTER UNIVERSITY. HER RECENT BOOK, COMFORT, T, CLEANLINESS AND CONVENIENCE: TH THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF NORMAL ALITY (2003), DEALS WITH THE DYNA NAMICS OF ORDINARY CONSUMPTI PTION AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS MPLICATIONS OF CHANGING HABITS. SHE NG HABIT REMAINS INTERESTED IN MUNDANE STED TECHNOLOGIES, EVERYDAY PRACTICES, AND THEORIES OF CHANGE. MARTIN HAND & ELIZABETH SHOVE MARTIN HAND & ELIZABETH ORCHESTRATING ORCHESTRAT CONC CONCEPTS: KITCHEN DYNAMICS KITCHEN DYNAM A AND REGIME CHANGE IN OD GOOD EK HOUSEKEEPING AND DE IDEAL HOME , 1922–20 1922–2002 1 It has long been recognized that users and consumers actively appropriate new products and technologies and assimilate them into existing regimes and f frames of reference. Much less has been wr written about how these frames evolve or abou about how processes of integration and a d appropriation are sustained and tra transformed. In this article we analyze “the kitchen” not as a place but as an ting c “orchestrating concept.” We subject esentations of the kitchen, as depicted representations of the kitchen, as depicte in in Good Housekeeping G and nd Ideal Home (two of the foremost home mag magazines in Britain) from 1922 to 2002, to two types of wo types of analysis. We begin by showing g how