In this episode, Anuja & Alev make Dannie Kjeldgaard (SDU) answer all of life’s big questions, such as “what is sustainability” and “can consumption ever be sustainable.” Dannie’s sensible Scandinavian approach is followed by two brilliant students (well, one recent and one almost- grad) - Silvia Sperti and Julia Wummel, who talk about their research on citizen-driven sustainability initiatives such as Swap Parties and Repair Cafes.

Optional reading list for this episode:

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Boström, M., & Klintman, M. (2019). Can we rely on ‘climate-friendly’consumption?. Journal of Consumer Culture, 19(3), 359-378.

Carfagna, L. B., Dubois, E. A., Fitzmaurice, C., Ouimette, M. Y., Schor, J. B., Willis, M., & Laidley, T. (2014). An emerging eco-habitus: The reconfiguration of high cultural capital practices among ethical consumers. Journal of Consumer Culture, 14(2), 158-178.

Curnow, J., & Helferty, A. (2018). Contradictions of solidarity: Whiteness, settler coloniality, and the mainstream environmental movement. Environment and Society, 9(1), 145-163.

Farrer, J. (2011). Remediation: Discussing fashion textiles sustainability. Shaping sustainable fashion: Changing the way we make and use clothes, 19-33.

Giesler, M., & Veresiu, E. (2014). Creating the responsible consumer: Moralistic governance regimes and consumer subjectivity. Journal of Consumer Research, 41(3), 840-857.

Handy, F., Katz-Gerro, T., Greenspan, I., & Vered, Y. (2021). Intergenerational disenchantment? Environmental behaviors and motivations across generations in South Korea. Geoforum, 121, 53-64.

Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.

Head, L., Klocker, N., & Aguirre-Bielschowsky, I. (2019). Environmental values, knowledge and behaviour: Contributions of an emergent literature on the role of ethnicity and migration. Progress in Human Geography, 43(3), 397-415.

Holt, D. B. (2012). Constructing sustainable consumption: From ethical values to the cultural transformation of unsustainable markets. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 644(1), 236-255; A&T: Chapter 11.

Kannengießer, S. (2018). Repair Cafés as communicative figurations: Consumer-critical media practices for cultural transformation. In Communicative figurations (pp. 101-122). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Kennedy, E. H., & Givens, J. E. (2019). Eco-habitus or eco-powerlessness? Examining environmental concern across social class. Sociological Perspectives, 62(5), 646-667.

Kumar, A. and Taylor Aiken, G., 2021. A postcolonial critique of community energy: Searching for community as solidarity in India and Scotland. Antipode, 53(1), pp.200-221.

Liboiron, M. (2021). Pollution is colonialism. Duke University Press.

MacGregor, S., Walker, C., & Katz-Gerro, T. (2019). ‘It’s what I’ve always done’: Continuity and change in the household sustainability practices of Somali immigrants in the UK. Geoforum, 107, 143-153.

Paddock, J. (2017). Household consumption and environmental change: Rethinking the policy problem through narratives of food practice. Journal of Consumer Culture, 17(1), 122-139.

Prothero, A., Dobscha, S., Freund, J., Kilbourne, W. E., Luchs, M. G., Ozanne, L. K., & Thøgersen, J. (2011). Sustainable consumption: Opportunities for consumer research and public policy. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 30(1), 31-38.

Pulido, L. (2017). Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Environmental racism, racial capitalism and state-sanctioned violence. Progress in Human Geography, 41(4), 524-533.

Reid, L., Sutton, P., & Hunter, C. (2010). Theorizing the meso level: the household as a crucible of pro-environmental behaviour. Progress in human geography, 34(3), 309-327.

Rosner, D. K. (2014). Making citizens, reassembling devices: On gender and the development of contemporary public sites of repair in Northern California. Public Culture, 26(1 (72)), 51-77.

Schoolman, E. D. (2020). Building community, benefiting neighbors:“Buying local” by people who do not fit the mold for “ethical consumers”. Journal of Consumer Culture, 20(3), 285-304.

Seyfang, G., & Paavola, J. (2008). Inequality and sustainable consumption: bridging the gaps. Local Environment, 13(8), 669-684.

Shove, E. (2010). Beyond the ABC: climate change policy and theories of social change. Environment and planning A, 42(6), 1273-1285

Toole, S., Klocker, N., & Head, L. (2016). Re-thinking climate change adaptation and capacities at the household scale. Climatic Change, 135(2), 203-209.

Tsing, A. L. (2015). The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton University Press.