To keep, or not to keep? That is the question. Studying divestment from a cross-cultural approach

Encino-Muñoz, Ana Gabriela; Sumner, Mark; Sinha, Pammi; Carnie, Bruce

doi:10.1080/14606925.2019.1595414

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“…As global supply chains gradually become more transparent, divestment can be used as a tool to target companies that maintain linear production models and contribute to the crisis of overconsumption. To politicize the issues of sustainable procurement and post-consumer waste, divestment could be employed as a means to pressure firms to commit to robust waste reduction plans and transition towards more circular business models [96]. In a circular economy, the average lifespan of a product is extended so that it may remain within use for as long as possible, or even indefinitely [97].…”

Section: Divestment From Consumerismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a circular economy, the average lifespan of a product is extended so that it may remain within use for as long as possible, or even indefinitely [97]. Future divestment campaigns can use life cycle analyses [96] to determine which producers contribute most acutely to overconsumption by promoting practices such as seriality, planned obsolescence, and obstructions to repairability. Divestment from corporations that continue linear models of production can encourage the proliferation of alternative product development models which reduce waste and optimize resource use.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Future of Divestment: Proliferations of Counter-Hegemonic and Post-Extractive Divestment Movements

Gransaull

Austin

Brodsky

et al. 2022

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Fossil fuel divestment has quickly become the largest divestment campaign in history, drawing attention to the large discrepancy between national climate commitments and the continued support of the fossil fuel industry. Yet, fossil fuel production and emissions continue to escalate rapidly. Our question is: what's next for the divestment movement? We propose a conceptual framework that identifies two waves of divestment leadership in which public pressure campaigns move towards targeting the extractive economic structures and predatory behaviors that permit fossil fuel extraction, and unsustainable resource extraction more generally, to continue without limit. Building on the three waves model of divestment, we postulate that a fourth wave of fossil fuel divestment organizing has already begun, one that focuses on banks, insurers, and other financiers of fossil fuel projects. Further into the future, we envision a fifth wave of divestment campaigns, whereby divestment is used in climate and environmental activists' arsenal to target firms that engage in environmentally damaging and unjust behaviors such as destructive mining activities, overconsumption, predatory debt or arbitration processes, or Indigenous rights violations. While divestment is not a panacea and does not displace the work of existing post-extractive or climate justice campaigns, we argue that divestment is a powerful tool that can be used to complement and amplify the work of environmental justice activists in other contexts beyond fossil fuels. This paper offers actionable suggestions for current and future activists and frames divestment as a tactic that will proliferate within other environmental movements in the transition towards a post-growth economy.

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Section: Divestment From Consumerismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future of Divestment: Proliferations of Counter-Hegemonic and Post-Extractive Divestment Movements

Gransaull

Austin

Brodsky

et al. 2022

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“…In particular, previous studies on divestment (Encino-Muñoz, Sumner, Sinha, & Carnie, 2019;Glover, 2015;Gregson, Metcalfe, & Crewe, 2007) have identified the channels through which people divest their possessions. These studies also highlight the importance of routines and social interactions in this practice.…”

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Towards a Taxonomy of Divestment. The Lifespan of Products as a Process

Encino-Muñoz¹,

Sumner²,

Sinha³

et al. 2021

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This paper presents findings of research focused on the divestment of material possessions. It argues that divestment can be better understood as a process instead of a moment in the lifespan of a product. The term divestment refers to the process through which owners separate physically or emotionally from their possessions. Using qualitative data obtained through the Photo-Elicitation Interview method, the study explores the experiences of people on three types of items: clothing, furniture and mobile phone aiming to understand how the separation between owners and possessions occurs. The results were systematised to build a taxonomy of divestment. This taxonomy analyses the divestment process as a negotiation between value-waste, capturing the moments in which the value of a product increases or decreases. The taxonomy consists of five different categories: physical divestment, virtual divestment, keeping/no use, irregular use and in use. The categorisation of these moments through the taxonomy allows to identify moments for interventions in the lifespan of products to promote more sustainable ways of divestment. It also becomes a useful tool for understanding the complexity of product's lifespan and possible interventions for promoting more sustainable ways of consumption.

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Hacia una agenda social del diseño: Diez retos para el contexto mexicano

Ortiz Nicolás,

Encino Muñoz,

Garduño García

et al. 2024

Econ. Creativa

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Este artículo presenta diez retos de diseño para el contexto mexicano, los cuales fueron informados a partir de problemáticas significativas de México. Para cumplir el objetivo primero se revisaron detalladamente reportes nacionales e internacionales realizados por entidades gubernamentales y no gubernamentales que informan problemáticas significativas para el desarrollo de un país, por ejemplo, la educación, la desigualdad o la violencia. A partir de dicha revisión se identificaron diez problemáticas relevantes para México. Estas problemáticas se transformaron en retos, que es una forma de abordarlos en la práctica del diseño. Así, una problemática es la desigualdad de género y el reto es cumplir la igualdad. Los diez retos fueron evaluados por un grupo de diseñadores y diseñadoras, quienes eran estudiantes, cuerpo docente o tutores de la Maestría en Diseño Industrial de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Los resultados indicaron que las personas participantes reconocen la relevancia de abordar los diez retos a partir de la práctica del diseño. Además y con base en los resultados obtenidos, los retos son una propuesta concreta para desarrollar una agenda social para el diseño en México. De igual manera, es una invitación para que el gremio de diseño establezca las problemáticas y retos significativos a abordar a partir de la práctica del diseño en diferentes contextos.

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To keep, or not to keep? That is the question. Studying divestment from a cross-cultural approach

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

The Future of Divestment: Proliferations of Counter-Hegemonic and Post-Extractive Divestment Movements

The Future of Divestment: Proliferations of Counter-Hegemonic and Post-Extractive Divestment Movements

Towards a Taxonomy of Divestment. The Lifespan of Products as a Process

Hacia una agenda social del diseño: Diez retos para el contexto mexicano

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