Mobile phones, batteries and power consumption: An analysis of social practices in Portugal

Horta, Ana; Fonseca, Susana; Trüninger, Mónica; Nobre, Nélia; Correia, Augusta

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2015.11.010

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“…Very few children talked about energy efficient infrastructure, unplugging mobile phones after charging, and turning off electric blankets. Previous studies obtained similar results [7,[32][33][34][35][36].…”

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confidence: 79%

Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand

Aguirre‐Bielschowsky

Lawson

Stephenson

et al. 2018

Energy Research & Social Science

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Socialisation into electricity consumption usually occurs during childhood, but little is known about the socialisation processes involved. Here, we use interviews and focus groups to investigate how nine to ten-year-old children from New Zealand learn about, and consume, electricity in their homes. The children used a wide range of electrical appliances and engaged in different energy saving behaviours, often without being conscious of their implications. Control over appliances and learning through modelling, reminders and rules helped to socialise children into saving electricity, while nagging and inconsistent behaviours from parents were counterproductive. Conversations about energy were uncommon, but helpful for creating consciousness about energy use. We discuss the need for a more structured approach, through developing energy literacy, in order for children to use their agency, surpass their parents' level of energy saving practices, and stabilise energy saving behaviours through life. In addition, we provide recommendations on how parents, schools, the media and product developers can help in this process.

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Section: Tablesupporting

confidence: 79%

Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand

Aguirre‐Bielschowsky

Lawson

Stephenson

et al. 2018

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…They predominantly live in “non‐traditional” social and housing arrangements (Buzar, Ogden, & Hall, ) that challenge the conventional normativities of the home‐owning nuclear family – one of the main underpinnings of urban planning, housing and energy policies in the UK (Cutas & Chan, ). At the same time, fuel poverty debates and action have been mostly focused on heating, with other domestic energy services that are of key importance to young people – such as information technology (see Horta, Fonseca, Truninger, Nobre, & Correia, ) – receiving comparatively less attention (Simcock, Walker, & Day, ). Energy studies have rarely entered into a dialogue with the broader body of scholarship on young people, where the established literature on the “geographies of youth” (Skelton & Valentine, ) has itself shown relatively less interest in young adults (Evans, ; Hörschelmann & Refaie, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Encountering energy precarity: Geographies of fuel poverty among young adults in the UK

Petrova

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper develops the notion of “energy precarity” in order to uncover the governance practices and material conditions that drive and reproduce the inability of households to secure socially‐ and materially‐necessitated levels of energy services in the home. The overarching aim is to foreground a geographical approach towards the study of domestic energy deprivation, by emphasizing the complex socio‐spatial and material embeddedness of fuel poverty. The paper operationalizes these ideas via a field‐based study of a group that has received limited attention in research and policy on fuel poverty: young adults living in privately rented accommodation. In evoking the experiences of such individuals, I employ energy precarity as a means of unpacking the spaces where energy deprivation is produced, experienced and contested. Among other findings, I highlight that people's fluid lifestyles and specific end‐use energy demand patterns mean that energy deprivation metaphorically and physically overflows the limits of home, creating multiple performativities of precarity that have received very little attention to date.

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“…A sociotechnical approach to exploring dynamics of household consumption in relation to questions of sustainability has gained traction, most notably in relation to the use of energy (e.g., [10,[36][37][38]) and water (e.g., [39]). New technologies are increasingly noted for their role in transforming everyday life in the domestic sphere.…”

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Re-Introducing Consumption to the ‘Circular Economy’: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Domestic Food Provisioning

2016

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Abstract:The paper makes two contributions to the advancement of the 'circular economy' as a blueprint for a more sustainable society. The first is to highlight the importance of understanding the dynamics of consumption and waste in the domestic sphere. The second is to illustrate two ways in which using insights from socio-technical literature on sustainable consumption, in combination with the sociology of food, could contribute to redressing this shortfall. This includes understanding why people use or consume particular goods or services, and how this might be altered; and what drives the production of waste and the adoption of strategies for its reduction by consumers. We mobilise insights from a socio-technical perspective on consumption, which highlights the importance of everyday interactions between routine activities, mundane technologies and cultural meanings in (re)producing patterns of consumption. These insights are illustrated with reference to domestic food provisioning, using empirical data generated through twenty semi-structured interviews with consumers in relation to meat consumption and thriftiness. Two suggestions for the development of the 'circular economy' to better take account of consumption within the domestic sphere are made. The first is a shift from imagining consumers as 'users' of particular products or services, to conceptualisation as 'doers' of everyday activities. The second is a broadening of the principle of 'eco-effectiveness' to take account for the social value of consumption.

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Mobile phones, batteries and power consumption: An analysis of social practices in Portugal

Cited by 21 publications

References 50 publications

Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand

Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand

Encountering energy precarity: Geographies of fuel poverty among young adults in the UK

Re-Introducing Consumption to the ‘Circular Economy’: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Domestic Food Provisioning

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