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Histories and Futures of Circular Economy

Springer eBooks, Nov 8, 2020

Studying consumption through the lens of practice: Routledge Handbook on Consumption

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How should we understand general understandings

Social practices and behaviour change

Bristol University Press eBooks, Aug 14, 2017

Looking Behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer

Social Forces, Mar 1, 2016

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The Practices of Collective Action

New Directions in Sustainable Consumption

Understanding the commercial field of sustainability communications

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Ethnography

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture

Consumer Co-Operatives

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture

Covid-19, Changing Social Practices and the Transition to Sustainable Consumption and Production

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Subject areas-Integrated resource management and the nexus among water, energy, food and land, Bi... more Subject areas-Integrated resource management and the nexus among water, energy, food and land, Biofuels and bioenergy (e.g., production of crops for energetic use, market introduction and diffusion of biofuels, social effects of bioenergy, acceptance of biofuels and bioenergy, food vs. fuel), Marketing and management of alternative automotive fuels and propulsion technologies (e.g., acceptance, market introduction strategies, cooperation requirements), Attitudes and consumer behavior research, Modelling of decision processes and technology acceptance, Life cycle sustainability assessment / social LCA, Comparative analysis of patterns of consumption and social change

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Studying consumption through the lens of practice

Routledge eBooks, Feb 10, 2017

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“Transitions in practice and everyday life” in "A research agenda for the Sustainability Transitions Research Network" pp. 29-34

Social practices and behaviour change

Policy Press eBooks, Feb 26, 2016

Practices of Social Change

Routledge eBooks, Aug 8, 2022

Book Review: Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere

The Sociological Review, May 1, 2016

problem’, are concealed (p. 192). Ultimately, for Macnicol, discrimination is socially constructe... more problem’, are concealed (p. 192). Ultimately, for Macnicol, discrimination is socially constructed, it changes its meaning according to political narratives, and in our current meritocratic and competitive neoliberal world it is particularly precarious as ‘we are in effect discriminating against our future selves’ (p. 178). It is this notion of the social construction of meaning that serves as critique of Macnicol. The analysis presented is evidently Marxist in persuasion, and draws upon a top-down mode of power. There are substantial references to the ways in which governments impose ageing policies on the masses according to a neoliberal agenda, and the masking of inequalities between the rich and poor. Whilst this is insightful, it does not truly reflect the force of the neoliberal discourse upon the human populace, specifically those in old age. A historical and political analysis is useful for understanding the impact of neoliberalism upon the ageing population and wider society but it takes a very particular view, and fails to comprehend the extent to which this ideology has, since the late 1970s, shaped the thinking of people. A Foucauldian analysis, linked to the concept of ‘biopolitics’, and following a bottom-up approach to the understanding of the functions of power, would have enabled a more in-depth examination of this, providing a rationale as to why individuals in democratic countries such as the UK and USA largely accept restricting policies with little active resistance, why there are intergenerational conflicts between the young and the old, linked to Beck’s and Beck-Gernsheim’s (2001) modernity thesis, and why the meaning of discrimination has altered. However, I believe this current work on neoliberalism and ageing policy to be invaluable for academics and students alike, as it is comprehensive in scale and offers, in the conclusion, viable ways forward to combat inequalities. It raises important questions about the future, specifically in relation to the treatment of older people; something which we all have an invested interest in and cannot now ignore.

Supermarkets, ‘the Consumer’ and Responsibilities for Sustainable Food

The SAGE Handbook of Nature: Three Volume Set

Review: Robert Crocker “Somebody Else’s Problem: Consumerism, Sustainability and Design”

Consumerism is problematic. It makes us acquisitive, materialistic, inauthentic, social competiti... more Consumerism is problematic. It makes us acquisitive, materialistic, inauthentic, social competitive, indebted, lazy and obese-and it's destroying the planet. Tat much we know. At least that is the common view we see endlessly rehearsed in contemporary media-in magazine articles, documentaries, Hollywood blockbusters, and NGO campaigns-as well as in everyday discourse. But what is consumerism? Consumerism is problematic in this other sense. As Robert Crocker notes at the beginning of Somebody Else's Problem, it has never atained much conceptual coherence. Is it simply the modern expression of innate human acquisitiveness and competitiveness-the Cro-Magnon in the mall thesis? Is it, as sociologists typically have it, a "material-cultural accompaniment of industrial mass consumption" (p.3). Does it denote the shared cultural anxieties of variegated global "cultures of consumption", as some historians of consumption suggest? Is it the hegemonic imaginary of the regime of capital accumulation, as critical political economy has argued for 170 years? Or is it the psycho-social motor of our unsustainable industrial economy, as Robert Crocker would generally have it? Sustainable consumption scholarship is largely divided between those employing a broad, nonnormative conception of consumption, encompassing the appropriation of goods in social practices, and those who are untroubled by informing their understanding of consumption with their normative distaste for the values and mores of contemporary consumer society. Tis distinction is ofen replicated in an emphasis, on the one hand, on structural constraints (material and social)-such as norms, the habitual character of behaviour, infrastructural lock-in and the obduracy of incumbents-and, on the other, an emphasis on agency, collective action, and cultural values. Robert Crocker falls squarely in neither camp-and this makes for an interesting read. Crocker, who teaches the history and theory of design and design for sustainability at the University of South Australia, begins this eminently readable and erudite book by noting how, in the context of

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