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Intersectionality and food consumption: a roundtable 交叉性和食物消费:圆桌会议

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-22 DOI: 10.1332/cqkw6251

S. Wahlen, Marie Plessz, W. Dean, Kia Ditlevsen, Stergios Magkriotis, Vasco Ramos

引用次数: 0

(Un)sustainable consumption: a contested, compelling and critical field (非)可持续消费:一个有争议的、引人注目的和关键的领域

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1332/byhl7310

M. Sahakian, S. Wahlen, Daniel Welch

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What if time was not money? Towards a pluriversal understanding of time for sustainable consumption 如果时间不是金钱呢?对可持续消费时间的多元理解

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1332/ghdn1794

Aurianne Stroude

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引用次数: 3

Hyper-aeromobility: the drivers and dynamics of frequent flying 超航空机动性:频繁飞行的驱动因素和动力学

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-18 DOI: 10.1332/lcwc4408

Noel Cass

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引用次数: 3

How the consumption of green public spaces contributes to quality of life: evidence from four Asian cities 绿色公共空间的消费如何提高生活质量:来自四个亚洲城市的证据

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.1332/smtk9540

Antonietta Di Giulio, M. Sahakian, Manisha Anantharaman, Czarina Saloma, Rupali Khanna, S. Narasimalu, Dunfu Zhang

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引用次数: 2

Environmental ethics in action: relations between practices, ethics and the culture of consumer society 环境伦理在行动:实践，伦理和消费社会文化之间的关系

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1332/xwic6056

Anne Sofie Møller Askholm, K. Gram-hanssen

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引用次数: 2

Imagining and co-creating futures of sustainable consumption and society 想象和共同创造可持续消费和社会的未来

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1332/xqum7064

C. L. Jensen, Frederikke Oldin, Greger Andersen

{"title":"Imagining and co-creating futures of sustainable consumption and society","authors":"C. L. Jensen, Frederikke Oldin, Greger Andersen","doi":"10.1332/xqum7064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/xqum7064","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing pressure on the climate from human activities, it is urgent to envision and facilitate radically different ways of life that allow for significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions. This only happens if policy and action initiatives go beyond discursive practices that treat climate change mitigation as a matter of technological fixes, and individual behavioural change. Decades of research on the sociology of consumption show that lifestyle changes are as much about changes to norms and ideas about what ‘a good life’ is as they are about access to the necessary competences, infrastructures and sustainable alternatives. Acknowledging the growing body of sociological research that seeks to understand how expectations of the future shape processes of social change in the present, more attention could be paid to the role of discourse, narratives and storying when it comes to making efforts towards carbon neutral climate futures. Taking as a point of departure a futuring methodology called the Future Travel Workshop, this article discusses the potential role of stories through Moezzi et al’s (2017) notion of stories as inquiry and stories as process for futurity. Comprised of three sessions, the workshop explores what future everyday lives and societies might look and feel like. Each session is framed by a set of narratives on climate related problems of the present, and how these problems affect the way we think about futures. Interestingly, the participants’ imagined futures went from technologically utopic and tension-free towards tense and radically different conceptions of the needed levels of societal reorganisation.","PeriodicalId":443072,"journal":{"name":"Consumption and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128986820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Taking fun seriously in envisioning sustainable consumption 认真考虑可持续消费的乐趣

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-07 DOI: 10.1332/yyee6072

R. Wilk

引用次数: 2

Sustainable consumption and the power of economic growth: exploring alternatives to the growth-dependency narrative 可持续消费和经济增长的力量:探索增长依赖叙事的替代方案

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-10-04 DOI: 10.1332/jppd7512

Tobias Gumbert, Pia Mamut, D. Fuchs, Tobias Welck

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引用次数: 3

What’s normal and what can we do about it? Challenging conventions, from research to teaching to action 什么是正常的，我们能做些什么?挑战传统，从研究到教学再到行动

Consumption and Society Pub Date : 2022-09-30 DOI: 10.1332/hlti9259

M. Sahakian, Tullia Jack

引用次数: 1