Reflexivity through practice-informed student journals: how “sustainable wellbeing” relates to teleoaffectivities

Sahakian, Marlyne; Stroude, Aurianne; Godin, Laurence; Courtin, Irène; Fahy, Frances; Fuchs, Doris; Langlois, Justine

doi:10.1080/15487733.2022.2043078

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“…Journaling methods have been used in different contexts and disciplines (Hyers, 2018) and have gained interest over the last decade. It is an adequate approach to collect in-depth data during the lockdowns as it provided a space for introspection on daily activities and experiences (Sahakian et al, 2022). Participants have been recruited through social media and associations promoting sustainability.…”

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Sustainable consumption, resonance, and care

Wahlen

Stroude

2023

Front. Sustain.

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Consumption is a key issue for more sustainable development. In our quest to understand the role of care for more sustainable consumption, we make use of the concept of resonance. Resonance assists in explaining the role of care for more sustainable consumption, emphasizing the relationships people have with the world. Through resonance, we add to debates on sustainable consumption that focus on the good life. Resonance describes a responsive mode of being-in-the-world and therefore depends on how we (passively) experience the world and how we (actively) appropriate or assimilate it. It is a reciprocal relationship between the individual and the world through which both are shaped. According to Hartmut Rosa, resonance as world relationship can be detected on three axes on which individuals relate to the world: (1) horizontal (people and politics), (2) diagonal (things), and (3) vertical (collective singulars such as nature, art, history, and religion). Using these axes as heuristic, we analyze solicited journaling method as well as in-depth interview data. Caring relationships can be detected along the three axes of resonance. Resonance thus helps to advance the characteristics of care as not limited to relationships between humans but also for things or collective singulars such as nature. Resonance also highlights how caring relationships support sustainable consumption in a positive way by focusing on its relational and reciprocal dimensions.

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Sustainable consumption, resonance, and care

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Stroude

2023

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“…Conducted in Ireland between January and June 2021, the planned methodology -combining participatory methods and individual interviews -had to be adapted due to COVID-19 restrictions. Inspired by a previous study that used a solicited journaling method (Sahakian et al, 2022), whereby participants respond to prompts, the fieldwork was carried out by combining solicited journaling and in-depth qualitative interviews. Participants were recruited through social media and through people engaged in promoting sustainable lifestyles.…”

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What if time was not money? Towards a pluriversal understanding of time for sustainable consumption

Stroude

2022

Consumption and Society

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Facing the growing emergency of changing consumption patterns to address the environmental crisis, many scholars have been studying individual behavioural change. Acknowledging that consumption is not just an individual choice but a social practice – embedded in socioeconomic, material, affective and cultural configurations – recent work has broadened the understanding of how to address sustainable consumption. Even though sustainability issues are fundamentally time-bound, time is seldom conceptualised as a substantive element. This article aims to contribute to this debate by raising the importance of time understandings to address (un)sustainable consumption. In the first part of this article the idea that the dominant economic system has pervaded our imaginaries, our behaviours and interactions, including how we see and experience time, is discussed, drawing mainly on degrowth scholars. The main understandings of time that stem from the assumption that ‘time is money’ are highlighted through the metaphors of the clock, the arrow and the target. Drawing on a qualitative fieldwork carried out in Ireland in spring 2021 among people engaged in sustainable practices, three alternative understandings of time – the cycle, the flow and the link – are then brought forward and discussed. It is argued that these different time understandings are performative in that they open up opportunities for more sustainable consumption and that we should aim at a pluriversal understanding of time that could foster the evolution of social organisation and institutions, towards non-capitalist goals such as wellbeing and environmental preservation.

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Everyday Life and How It Changes: Studying ‘Sustainable Wellbeing’ with Students During a Pandemic

Sahakian

2023

Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

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Semi-confinement measures around the COVID-19 pandemic led to disruptions in everyday lives, in particular when it comes to reconfiguring habitual and routinized ways of doing things—a central theme in a social practice approach to understanding consumption. This contribution considers the weekly journal entries of 95 students in an undergraduate class at the University of Geneva, documenting how their consumption-related practices were changing, and how such changes relate to ‘sustainable wellbeing’. Students describe thrift and frugality measures in relation to resource consumption, reconsider existing practices such as ‘being fashionable’, but also explore new practices, such as preparing elaborate meals. In terms of wellbeing, consuming resources was clearly less relevant to students than social relations, whether facilitated through information-communication technologies or at a physical distance, as well as experiencing some form of contact with nature. We found that it is possible to engage students in reflecting on the normative goal of need satisfaction, and for students to distinguish between needs and desires, and between needs and their means of satisfaction. The societal context of the pandemic also led to reflections around how wellbeing must be understood at both an individual and societal level, and how ‘sustainable wellbeing’ as a normative aim might be planned for in the future.

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Reflexivity through practice-informed student journals: how “sustainable wellbeing” relates to teleoaffectivities

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Sustainable consumption, resonance, and care

Sustainable consumption, resonance, and care

What if time was not money? Towards a pluriversal understanding of time for sustainable consumption

Everyday Life and How It Changes: Studying ‘Sustainable Wellbeing’ with Students During a Pandemic

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