Consumption, Everyday Life and Sustainability. Funded by the ESF TERM programme

 

 

 

Contents of the Reader for the Summer School of 1999

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Introduction

Elizabeth Shove and Dale Southerton

 

Introducing Consumption, Everyday Life and Sustainability

 

Theme 1 - The Dynamics of Consumption

Gert Spaargaren

 

The Ecological Modernisation of Domestic Consumption

 

Michael Jacobs

 

The Quality of Life

Don Slater

 

 

Themes from the Sociology of Consumption

 

 

Theme 2 - Cross-Cultural Meanings and Practices

Elizabeth Shove and Alan Warde

 

Noticing inconspicuous consumption

 

 

Harold Wilhite and Loren Lutzenhiser

 

Social Loading and Sustainable Consumption

 

 

Guliz Ger, Hal Wilhite, Bente Halkier, Jeppe Laessoe, Mirjam Godskesen, Inge Ropke

 

Symbolic Meanings of High and Low Impact Consumption in Different Cultures

 

Theme 3 - Configuring Demand

Mika Pantzar

 

Do Commodities Reproduce themselves through human beings? Man vs. nature vs. technology: problems and new conceptualisations

 

Jaap Jelsma

 

Philosophy Meets Design, or how the masses are missed (and revealed again) in environmental policy and ecodesign

 

Mika Pantzar, Elizabeth Shove, Dale Southerton & Pol Strandbakken.

 

 

Configuring domestic technologies: the normalisation of freezers in Finland, Norway and the UK

 

 

Theme 4 - Consumption, Sustainability and Time

Alan Warde, Elizabeth Shove & Dale Southerton

Convenience, schedules and sustainability

 

Theo Beckers

The expropriation of time: the end of Fordist work and leisure

 

 

Theme 5 - Systems of Provision and Sustainability

Pirkko Kasanen, Anne Malin, 

Karl Steininger & Franz Prettenthaler

 

Environmental innovation in consumption and the development of a sustainable infrastructure

 

Heather Chappells & Elizabeth Shove

 

Bins and the history of waste relations

 

Bas van Vliet and Heather Chappells

 

The Co-provision of Utility Services: Resources, New Technologies & Consumers

 

 

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