ABSTRACT
This chapters explores material flows through domestic spaces shed a fascinating light on the complexities, opportunities and contradictions manifest in practices and systems of household formation and consumption. Sustainability reveals the deeply political nature of the ostensibly private realm of home, as long proclaimed in postmodern and feminist theory. The three pilot studies related to respondents with three different levels of self-identified environmental behaviour. The differences in the socio-technical infrastructures surrounding the deployment of plastic water bottle in Bangkok are intriguing and significant. A key point is that certain material properties only make sense in particular socio-physical infrastructures - such as the size and portability of water bottles for domestic water consumption in Bangkok as a reflection and facilitation of particular household formations and identities. Homes, economies and identities are intricately bound up in processes operating at multiple scales and have always been enmeshed in overt and covert moral systems and debates.
