Caring consumption and sustainability: Insights from household provisioning in the first ten years of motherhood

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI:10.1016/j.eist.2024.100932

Kate Burningham, Susan Venn

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Abstract

As primary sites of everyday consumption households play a key role in sustainability transitions. Yet neither everyday consumption nor what goes on within households have received much attention within the sustainability transitions literature. This paper contributes to this research gap by exploring how everyday practices of mothering intersect with aspects of the sustainability of everyday food provisioning. This is explored via longitudinal research with 10 women over a period of 10 years beginning when they were pregnant with their first child. Analysis considers engagement in both overtly ethical or environmental product choices and the adoption of online shopping- a mode of consumption which may be ‘inadvertently’ environmental. Analysis highlights that provisioning practices are profoundly relational and flexible, prioritising care, thrift and time management. Sustainability transitions need to adopt holistic discourses of sustainable living which embrace the relational character of everyday consumption and support affordable and feasible everyday practices of care.

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关爱消费与可持续性：从母亲头十年的家庭供应中获得的启示

作为日常消费的主要场所，家庭在可持续性转型中发挥着关键作用。然而，无论是日常消费还是家庭内部发生的事情，在可持续发展转型文献中都没有得到太多关注。本文通过探讨母亲的日常做法如何与日常食品供应的可持续性相互交织，从而弥补这一研究空白。本文通过对 10 名妇女从怀上第一个孩子开始的 10 年间的纵向研究进行探讨。分析既考虑了公开的道德或环保产品选择，也考虑了网上购物的采用--一种可能 "无意中 "环保的消费模式。分析突出表明，供应做法具有深刻的关系性和灵活性，优先考虑关爱、节俭和时间管理。可持续性转型需要采用可持续生活的整体论述，这种论述应包含日常消费的关系特性，并支持负担得起的、可行的日常护理实践。

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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13.60

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19.40%

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审稿时长

56 days

期刊介绍： Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions serves as a platform for reporting studies on innovations and socio-economic transitions aimed at fostering an environmentally sustainable economy, thereby addressing structural resource scarcity and environmental challenges, particularly those associated with fossil energy use and climate change. The journal focuses on various forms of innovation, including technological, organizational, economic, institutional, and political, as well as economy-wide and sectoral changes in areas such as energy, transport, agriculture, and water management. It endeavors to tackle complex questions concerning social, economic, behavioral-psychological, and political barriers and opportunities, along with their intricate interactions. With a multidisciplinary approach and methodological openness, the journal welcomes contributions from a wide array of disciplines within the social, environmental, and innovation sciences.