Getting emotional: historic and current changes in food consumption practices viewed through the lens of cultural theories

Sahakian, Marlyne

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“…Our practices are shaped by our needs and capacities, and those of others, reflecting the role models or norms confirmed in social groups [72,75]. Some illustrative cases include keeping our bodies and houses clean and comfortable [76] or opting for specific categories of food [77,78]. Our practices are enabled and constrained by the physical arrangements, including infrastructures, products and tools, and the shared meanings and values attached [73,79].…”

Section: Impact Messaging and Its Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Low-Carbon Lifestyles beyond Decarbonisation: Toward a More Creative Use of the Carbon Footprinting Method

Watabe

Yamabe-Ledoux

2023

Sustainability

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There is a growing recognition of the urgent need to change citizens’ lifestyles to realise decarbonised societies. Consumption-based accounting (carbon footprinting) is a helpful indicator for measuring the impacts of peoples’ consumption on climate change by capturing both direct and embedded carbon emissions. However, while carbon footprinting can propose impactful behaviour changes to reduce carbon footprints immediately, it may deflect people’s attention from the much needed but time-consuming efforts to reshape the “systems of provisions” to enable decarbonised living. To propose a more constructive application of carbon footprinting, the paper examines the three cases of using carbon footprinting derived from the 1.5-degree lifestyles project, including citizens’ discussions and experiments in six cities in 2020 and 2021, citizens’ workshops contributing to the local policy development in 2022, and lectures and mini-workshops since 2020. Based on the examination of the cases, the article argues the broader purposes of using scientific data in citizens’ engagement in climate actions, namely to help deepen understanding of the systemic causes of the incumbent carbon-intensive society, to guide discussions on the desired conditional changes to support lifestyles shifts, and to help identify possible risks or negative consequences of changes to specific groups in society. These benefits contribute to developing relevant stakeholders’ essential capacities to promote changes at the individual, collective and public levels toward decarbonised societies.

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Section: Impact Messaging and Its Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Low-Carbon Lifestyles beyond Decarbonisation: Toward a More Creative Use of the Carbon Footprinting Method

Watabe

Yamabe-Ledoux

2023

Sustainability

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“…According to Schatzki (1996), they include beliefs, actions, emotions and moods, as well as ends, purposes, projects and tasks that do not need to be made explicit in terms of rules. Emotions are considered as one component of the practice, something that can influence how new practitioners are recruited to the practice (Sahakian, 2015) and how a practice itself may shift (Sahakian et al , 2016). As Nicolini (2012) wrote, a teleo-affective structure is a set of ends that actors should or may pursue, which are spelled-out by members of a practice to socialize newcomers into the practice.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is thus important to understand what, how and why things are done and communicated during the process of change, and the approaches of practice theories and the communicative constitution of organizing (CCO) provide an opportunity for this. Emotions are also part of social practices and a research stream studying the role of emotions is building-up in consumer studies (Sahakian, 2015; Welch, 2017), but not yet in organization studies.…”

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Taking apart structural change

Rosenberg

2018

IJOA

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Purpose This paper aims to discuss the role of communication in relieving tensions that can arise from organizational practices enacted during structural change. Practices, according to Whittington (2006, p. 619), constitute shared routines of behaviour, including traditions, norms and procedures for thinking and acting. Design/methodology/approach Employees’ reflections regarding what, how and why certain circumstances occurred during the structural reform of an Estonian State Institution with approximately 300 employees, comprised the study data. Reflections were collected during 27 interviews conducted after recent change to the structure of this organization. After aggregating different actions, associations and emotions into practices, these practices were assigned to elements offered by Schatzki (2005), and tensions between the elements sought and analysed. Findings Analysis of the three practices extracted as forming part of the structural reform – management decision-making, recruitment and physical relocation – showed that in organizational settings, the constitutional role of communication within practices needs conscious attention at different levels of the practice. Tensions that arose between practice elements, e.g. rules or reasons for doing something not complying with ways of doing it, revealed the need for metacommunication regarding those elements. Practical implications Communication during organizational changes needs to be more than crafted messages via well-organized channels from the communications department; it needs to penetrate to all different levels before, during and after a change. All that to create as many opportunities for employees at all levels to collectively make sense of what is happening and for the management to make necessary changes based on that. It should be created consciously by for example inviting employees together in discussion circles during the planning phase of the change and outlining the key processes of the change in question with them involved. Originality/value The value of this study is in investigating what goes on in an organization by distancing oneself from the immediate behaviour of an individual to focus on patterns of action, which gives another understanding as to why even when people wish for the best, things often still do not turn out as hoped. This approach refers to the theory that there are tensions or mistakes coded into practices, thus allowing one to look at inter-personal communication as part of other actions, not as a separate line of actions.

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“…In recent years there has been a significant upswing of interest in the social sciences to address the relevance of emotions and affect as important ingredients of social processes and as a constitutive part of social life, which should not be relegated to a domain of somehow non-social psychological processes. Practice theory has neglected this fundamental aspect of social practice until very recently (see contributions from Scheer 2012;Reckwitz, 2017;Sahakian, 2015, Wetherell, 2015Weenink and Spaargaren, 2016). The affective aspects of practices are not a special case, relating to specifically affective practices such as falling in love, but are intrinsic to practices in general.…”

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Behaviour change and theories of practice: Contributions, limitations and developments

Welch¹

2017

Social Business

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 Purpose: This paper considers the role that theories of social practice can play in offering new insights into policymaking and practical interventions for behavioural and social change.  Design/methodology/approach: This is a conceptual paper. It provides a brief overview of the key features of practice theories pertinent to the field of behavioural and social change and critically reviews practice theoretical literature relevant to the field.  Findings: The paper argues that a social practice perspective offers more robust accounts of how social and behavioural change comes about than conventional approaches and offers novel insights and targets for interventions. Practice theories have made the most direct contribution to behaviour change in the context of sustainable consumption but offer insights to a range of empirical domains relevant to social business, including health promotion and organisational change.  Limitations: The efficacy of a social practice approach to behaviour change has yet to be empirically established and will require the development of a new evidence base.  Implications: Ongoing dialogue is needed between theoretical development, empirical research and practical interventions utilising practice theories. 2  Contribution: The paper's contribution is to review recent developments in practice theory, acknowledge the limitations of existing approaches and suggest potential routes to overcome them.

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Getting emotional: historic and current changes in food consumption practices viewed through the lens of cultural theories

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Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Low-Carbon Lifestyles beyond Decarbonisation: Toward a More Creative Use of the Carbon Footprinting Method

Low-Carbon Lifestyles beyond Decarbonisation: Toward a More Creative Use of the Carbon Footprinting Method

Taking apart structural change

Behaviour change and theories of practice: Contributions, limitations and developments

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