Peering into the Abyss: Environment, Research and Absurdity in the ‘Age of Stupid’

Bryant, Raymond L.

doi:10.4337/9781849805520.00021

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“…As a period of intensified consumption, festivals thus produce a significant number of environmental issues. For example, Bryant [75] suggests that Christmas is the world's largest annual environmental disaster. Haq et al [73] conclude that about £4 billion was spent on unwanted fits in the United Kingdom each year.…”

Section: Atmosphere and Sustainable Consumptionmentioning

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Understanding Consumers’ Sustainable Consumption Intention at China’s Double-11 Online Shopping Festival: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model

2018

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shopping festival has become the largest national shopping festival in China. This study investigates the effect of the atmosphere during the Double-11 shopping festival on Chinese people's sustainable consumption by extending the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). A survey on a sample of 404 Chinese consumers showed that the atmosphere specific to China's Double-11 shopping festival was negatively associated with consumers' purchase intention toward sustainable consumption. Moreover, the negative relationship was mediated by consumers' attitude toward sustainable consumption, the subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control.

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Section: Atmosphere and Sustainable Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Consumers’ Sustainable Consumption Intention at China’s Double-11 Online Shopping Festival: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model

2018

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“…Nevertheless, even in a time of global recession, Christmas spending accounts for about one third of annual retail turnover in Western economies (Hencock and Rehn, 2011). In an inherently unstable economic system, Bryant (2010) argues that capitalism is increasingly dependent on consumption throughout the Christmas season.…”

Section: Christmas Gifts and Environmental Anxietiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bryant (2010) refers to Christmas as the world's greatest annual environmental disaster, with Christmas not only symbolic of hyper-capitalism, but constitutive of it. Christmas is the most intensive trading period of the year for sustainable consumption providers such as (UK) Traidcraft (Barnett et al, 2005;Sanchez, 2005).…”

Section: Christmas Gifts and Environmental Anxietiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gifts, sustainable consumption and giving up green anxieties at Christmas

Farbotko¹,

Head²

2013

Geoforum

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This paper explores the proposition that gifting is a little recognised yet important practice bound up in the quest for sustainable consumption, which has largely been studied with reference to market rather than gift economies. It draws on gift theories in economic anthropology which explain gifts as engendering social relations of reciprocity and beyond, and shaping social life differently to commodities. Understanding how and why commodities become gifts (and vice versa), we contend, provides a new way of understanding some of the complex ways in which social relations are implicated in sustainable consumption. We use a study of Christmas gifting practices within a group of environmentally engaged households to begin to empirically explore if and how environmental considerations are expressed in the gift economy. We conclude that the fashioning of a particular social identity, namely, the 'green consumer' can operate very differently in the context of gift-exchange than in the context of non-gifting consumption. This paper explores the proposition that gifting is a little recognised yet important practice bound up in the quest for sustainable consumption, which has largely been studied with reference to market rather than gift economies. It draws on gift theories in economic anthropology which explain gifts as engendering social relations of reciprocity and beyond, and shaping social life differently to commodities. Understanding how and why commodities become gifts (and vice versa), we contend, provides a new way of understanding some of the complex ways in which social relations are implicated in sustainable consumption. We use a study of Christmas gifting practices within a group of environmentally engaged households to begin to empirically explore if and how environmental considerations are expressed in the gift economy. We conclude that the fashioning of a particular social identity, namely, the 'green consumer' can operate very differently in the context of giftexchange than in the context of non-gifting consumption.

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The incompatibility of neoliberal university structures and interdisciplinary knowledge: A feminist slow scholarship critique

Bergland

2017

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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Peering into the Abyss: Environment, Research and Absurdity in the ‘Age of Stupid’

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Understanding Consumers’ Sustainable Consumption Intention at China’s Double-11 Online Shopping Festival: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model

Understanding Consumers’ Sustainable Consumption Intention at China’s Double-11 Online Shopping Festival: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model

Gifts, sustainable consumption and giving up green anxieties at Christmas

The incompatibility of neoliberal university structures and interdisciplinary knowledge: A feminist slow scholarship critique

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