The Limited Autonomy of the Consumer: Implications for Sustainable Consumption
By Dale Southerton, A. Warde, M. Hand, H. Chappells, B. Vliet. 2004
131 citations recorded by the source corpus.
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- Yolande A. A. Strengers
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- G. Walker
- Elizabeth Shove
- F. Spotswood
Citations in the corpus
- Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices (2013, background): “’ Such a model applied to consumption presents the individual as a sovereign consumer, where consumption is largely a matter of personal decision-making within commercial markets that, in turn, respond to (aggregate) consumer demands and provide the sovereign consumer with a range of product choices”
- Is small the only beautiful? Making sense of ‘large phenomena’ from a practice- based perspective (2016, background): “…countries, by focussing on how an incremental changes of techniques, know-how, and ways of understanding bodily cleanliness came together to ‘created a space for showering to challenge the previously dominant way of doing bodily cleansing (that is bathing)’ (Southerton, Warde, and Hand, 2004: 42).”
- Practice-ing behaviour change: Applying social practice theory to pro-environmental behaviour change (2011, background): “In particular, critics have argued that such approaches are excessively individualistic and fail to appreciate the ways in which, variously, social relations, material infrastructures and context are intrinsic to the performance of social practices (e.g. Bedford, 1999; Hobson, 2003; Nye and Hargreav”
- Peak electricity demand and social practice theories: Reframing the role of change agents in the energy sector (2012, background): “…understanding of demand including its limitations in achieving long-lasting transformation in the ways we think about and use resources such as energy (Guy & Shove 2000; Kempton & Montgomery 1982; Lutzenhiser 1993; Shove 2003; Southerton et al. 2004; Wilhite et al. 2000; Wilk & Wilhite 1985).”