Consuming conventions: sustainable consumption, ecological citizenship and the worlds of worth

Evans, David M.

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.02.002

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“…Wilhite and Lutzenhiser, 1999). Each household has its own ideas about how to live (Hawkins, 2011), conventions it seeks to uphold (Evans, 2011b;Shove, 2003b) or 'moral economies' (Hargreaves et al, 2010; see also Hall, 2011). It is with reference to these influences that the household is viewed as, ''an organisational unit over which householders have significant control...'' (Lane and Gorman-Murray, 2011: 1).…”

Section: Defining the (Sustainable) Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability

Collins

2015

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a b s t r a c tRecent research on how best to support the development of pro-environmental behaviours has pointed towards the household as the scale at which interventions might be most effectively targeted. While proenvironmental behaviour research has tended to focus on the actions of adults, almost one-third of UK households also include children and teenagers. Some research has suggested that young people are particularly adept at exerting influence on the ways in which the household as a whole consumes. Yet this influence is not only one-way; parents continue to have direct input into the ways in which their children relate to and interact with the objects of consumption (such as personal possessions) through routine processes including acquisition, use, keeping and ridding. In this paper I draw on qualitative research with British teenagers to highlight how young people and their parents interact when managing household material consumption. I use this discussion to suggest that promoters of sustainability might increase the efficacy of their efforts by engaging households as complex family units, where individual household members' distinct priorities are linked by shared familial values, and where family-based group identity is used to encourage shared commitment to lower-impact living.

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Section: Defining the (Sustainable) Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability

Collins

2015

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“…This paper, however, takes the cue from recent contributions focusing on the consumption context. Conventions theory has been used, for example, to deal with consumer perceptions of organic food (Lamine, 2008;O'Doherty Jensen, 2004;Trüninger, 2005) and conventions informing sustainable or 'alternative' consumption practices (Evans, 2011;Sassatelli, 2004).…”

Section: Moral Conventions and Pragmatics Of Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is a matter of debate, however, whether 'green' and 'organic' conventions are one and the same thing (O'Doherty Jensen, 2004), and whether a separate order of moral evaluations is needed to describe the conventions drawn on in 'green' or 'organic' argumentation. Based on interviews with selfidentified 'green' consumers, Evans argues, for example, that these may be said to draw on civic as well as other orders of moral evaluation in accounting for their 'green' consumption practices, but that a distinct and well established set of conventions through which to legitimate practices of sustainable consumption on environmental grounds is not apparent in their accounts (Evans, 2011).…”

Section: Organic Harmonymentioning

confidence: 99%

Organic food and the plural moralities of food provisioning

Andersen

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Adults also become more sensitive due to the adult-cub activities because they understand better the environment in which children live [9], given that children cannot love what they do not understand. [10] Open air activities on educational farms, besides the fact that they help children accumulate new knowledge and skills, generate, according to [13], social benefits due to the interaction with other children, teachers, and farmers and a better cognitive functioning, according to [7] that soothes the impact of stress on children's life.…”

Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%