Critical sustainable consumption: a research agenda

Anantharaman, Manisha

doi:10.1007/s13412-018-0487-4

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“…Critical environmental scholars have identified patterns in the presentation of racialised subjects in climate change research and policy (Anantharaman 2018;Klocker and Head 2013;Pulido 2017). Research addressing the impacts of climate change has been concentrated in communities with significant populations of colour, whether policy-led climate adaptation research in the Global South, or environmental justice-oriented scholar-activism in disadvantaged communities in the Global North (Agyeman 2005;Schill and Austin 1991;Taylor 2014a).…”

Section: Challenging Dominant (Minority World) Thinking On Climate Chmentioning

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“…Race, ethnicity and migration status are frequently overlooked in such research. Thus the (Global North, deracialised) assumptions underpinning dominant environmental agendas remain unchallenged, with minimal attention to the forms of structural and relational power that make proposed climate adaptation and sustainability strategies more or less feasible for particular groups (Anantharaman 2018;Middlemiss, Isenhour, and Martiskainen 2019). Where climate change and migration come together, the focus is usually on climate-induced migration (for example, Berchin et al 2017), whilst the knowledge and practices of migrants and their potential contribution to climate change adaptation in host countries tend to be overlooked.…”

Section: Challenging Dominant (Minority World) Thinking On Climate Chmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Generation Z’ and ‘second generation’: an agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants

Walker

2020

Children's Geographies

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Cross-cultural negotiations of environmental knowledge in children and young people's lives have received minimal attention in children's geographies and wider childhood scholarship, despite interests in child and youth environmental concerns and learning that predate the school strikes for climate. This viewpoint articulates an agenda for advancing research in this area in light of youth-led articulations of 'climate crisis', beginning with exploration of how second generation immigrants encounter, interpret and negotiate the climate crisis in everyday life. The viewpoint situates this agenda in academic and popular arguments to diversify and decolonise environmentalism amid increasingly polyvocal responses to the climate crisis.

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Section: Challenging Dominant (Minority World) Thinking On Climate Chmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Challenging Dominant (Minority World) Thinking On Climate Chmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Generation Z’ and ‘second generation’: an agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants

Walker

2020

Children's Geographies

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“…Furthermore, studies exist that address the relations of power as potential forces in the social ordering of sustainable consumption practices (Anantharaman 2018;Hargreaves 2011). Although these studies give a clear indication that practices are rooted in the surrounding structural environment, the nature of this linkage remains elusive, as will be further elaborated in the following section.…”

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Institutions and Agency in the Sustainability of Day-to-Day Consumption Practices: An Institutional Ethnographic Study

Pekkanen

2020

J Bus Ethics

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Consumption is essentially an institutional action. While both the formal institutional environment and cultural embeddedness shape consumption, individuals may reciprocally amend the institutional setting through consumption choices that challenge the prevalent institutional constraints. This paper reconciles theoretical and conceptual premises from institutional and practice theory literature to study the sustainability of consumption. Using institutional ethnography as a methodological approach, the study explores the pendulum between embeddedness and agency in shaping the sustainability of day-to-day consumption of necessary goods; and further, how the external institutional environment may interact with human behaviour to contribute towards sustainability. The study finds a hierarchy of informal institutions, each level of which interacts differently with external changes. For example, sustainability is found to be more widespread the more it is embedded in practices, and this is a result of overall institutional development beyond regulation and choice editing. The results also highlight the importance of understanding unintentional sustainability in consumption practices.

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“…Here, collaborative actions, including grassroots or micro-scale initiatives deserve attention [54][55][56][57]. Such initiatives are often carried out in protective spaces [58] where actors are relatively free from the ordinary constraints such as political/legal requirements, dominant actors of the market, and social norms that force them to follow business as usual.…”

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To See a World in a Grain of Sand—The Transformative Potential of Small Community Actions

Watabe

Gilby

2020

Sustainability

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The recognition of the urgent need for more sustainable lifestyles dates from the late 20th century, originating in concerns about resource depletion and climate change. Research and policy measures have evolved since then, paying increasing attention to systemic change over individual behaviour. However, as individual behavioural change is constrained by the systems within which choices are made, more study is needed to understand better how systemic changes occur. Drawing on the experiences of the Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme of the UN-led One-Planet Network in collaborating with small collective actions for sustainable lifestyles, the paper analyses the needs and approaches for sustainable lifestyles and opportunities for the local actors to grow their capacities in developing ways of living sustainably. These experiences show that the pursuit of sustainable lifestyles is not a one-shot change in behaviour. It is a continuous process where actors identify and tackle locally specific opportunities for responsible and sustainable ways of living, and through a process of mutual learning and experimentation gradually shape shared visions of sustainable living. Systemic changes for sustainable living are ultimately neither about simply improving people’s awareness or attitudes or replacing some components of the external systems. They are the creation of capacities and aspirations of people actively and continuously engaging to shape alternative systems of living.

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Critical sustainable consumption: a research agenda

Cited by 58 publications

References 47 publications

‘Generation Z’ and ‘second generation’: an agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants

‘Generation Z’ and ‘second generation’: an agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants

Institutions and Agency in the Sustainability of Day-to-Day Consumption Practices: An Institutional Ethnographic Study

To See a World in a Grain of Sand—The Transformative Potential of Small Community Actions

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