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Doing laundry in consumption corridors: wellbeing and everyday life

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2020
In this article, we explore the possibilities for a transformation toward more sustainable energy usage by engaging with mundane activities, such as doing the laundry.
Laurence Godin   +2 more
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CONSUMER ATTITUDES OF MODERN SOCIETY

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020
Purpose. The article is devoted to consumption as a natural process of economic agents. The relevance of the appeal to consumption is determined by changes in socio-economic relations that form new consumer attitudes in an era of abundance of goods.
Galina Petrovna Prokofeva   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

My Journey within Practice-Based Approaches Bandwagon

open access: yesSociologica, 2019
In this comment to the Symposium on the Contamination of Practices, the author reflects on the birth of practice theory, as emerged from the work done with his colleague Elizabeth Shove. In doing so, the comment outlines that the interest to develop this
Mika Pantzar
doaj   +1 more source

Post-publication gatekeeping practices: Exploring conversational and visual gatekeeping on Finnish newspapers’ Instagram accounts

open access: yesNordicom Review, 2023
News media share gatekeeping power with social media platforms and audiences in the digital news environment. This means news media is no longer the sole gatekeeper when gatekeeping is viewed post-publication, that is after news content has been ...
Salonen Margareta   +1 more
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Conceptualising urban density, energy demand and social practice

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2021
In urban studies and in energy policy there is much debate about the relationship between energy demand and the density of residential areas, measured in units such as those of population/ha or population/km2.
Jenny Rinkinen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising

open access: yes, 2022
Representation is key in the politics of mass-mediated consumer society. Although previous research has noted that representation in advertising generates greater societal visibility for people with disabilities, focus has largely been on negative ...
Niklas Vallström   +6 more
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Material culture and the circular economy

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Accounts of the circular economy deal with lives of objects mainly through notions of repair, sharing and re-use. This has led to problems associated with contemporary discourses of circularity including the tendency to focus on goods in isolation, and ...
Jenny Rinkinen, Elizabeth Shove
doaj   +1 more source

Ethics in the liquid consumer society

open access: yesPuriq, 2023
The objective of this research is to analyze the ethical behavior of man and the sudden transformations of the ethicity of individual or social man, in relation to the surrounding world within the theory of liquid society, founded by Zygmunt Bauman ...
Edgar Gutiérrez-Gómez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent developments in the energy poverty and vulnerability research in Europe: a systematic literature review

open access: yesEnergy Strategy Reviews
There is an extensive body of energy poverty literature in the European context, and the literature is increasing at a fast pace. This is due to increased awareness of the problem, as well as societal developments such as the energy transition and recent
Tuija Kajoskoski   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors influencing cancer patients’ experiences of care in the USA, United Kingdom, and Canada: A systematic review

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: The extent to which individual and structural factors influence cancer patients’ reports of their experiences are not yet well understood.
Saleh A. Alessy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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