Syllabus/achievement requirements

Book

Wilhite, H. 2008. Consumption and the Transfomation of Everday Life: A View from South India. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan

 

Compendium

Campbell, C. 1995. Chapter 3 “The Sociology of consumption” pp 96 - 126 in Daniel Miller (red): Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of new studies. London: Routledge.

Fine, B. and E. Leopold. 1993. Chapter  4 "Economic and Consumer Behaviour", pp 46-54, in The World of Consumption. London: Routledge.

Layard, R. 2005. Chapter 4 ‘If you are so rich, why aren’t you happy?" pp 41-53. In Layard, R. Happiness, lessons from a new science. London: Penguin books.

Miller, D. 1995. Chapter 1 ‘Consumption As the Vanguard of History’ pp 1- 57. In D. Miller (Ed.), Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies. London: Routledge.

Princen, Thomas, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca. 2002: Chapter 1 “Confronting Consumption” pp 1-20 in Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca (red): Confronting Consumption. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Rojek, Chris. 2004. “The Consumerist syndrome in Contemporary Socieity. An interview with Zygmunt Bauman” in Journal of Consumer Culture 4(3): 291 – 312

Shove, E., L. Lutzenhiser, S. Guy, B. Hackett, H. Wilhite: 1998. Chapter 5 “Energy and social systems” pp 291 - 325 in Steve Rayner and Elizabeth L. Malone (eds): Human Choice and Climate Change. Ohio: Battelle Press. 1998.

Verbeek, P. 2006. "Materializing morality: Design ethics and technology mediation". Science, Technology & Human Values 31(3): 361 – 380.

Wilhite, H. and L. Lutzenhiser: "Social Loading and Sustainable Consumption", in Eric J. Arnould og Linda M. Scott (red): Advances in Consumer Research, vol 26. Montreal: Association for consumer research. 1999, pp.281-287.

 

Online

The online articles are accessible online to UiO students, but you need to use a computer which is on the UiO network. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The online articles will also be available electronically on Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.

Carrier, J. and D. Miller.1999. Chapter 2, ‘From Private Virture to Public Vice’, pp24 - 47. In H. Moore (Ed.), Anthropological Theory of Today. Cambridge and Oxford: Polity Press.

Monica Guillen-Royo in Bj?rkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (2012): "Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies" (Oslo: Unipub)., pp. 99-118

Standal, K. (2010): "Lighting the Path Towards Gender Equality: Training Women as Solar Engineers in Afghanistan", Gender & Energy 2/2010, s. 5-7, 3 sider Fulltekst.

Warde, A. 2005. "Consumption and theories of practice". Journal of Consumer Culture 5:131-153.

Wilhite, H. 2013. "Energy consumption as cultural practice: Implications for the theory and policy of sustainable energy use" in S. Strauss, S. Rupp and T. Love (Eds), Cultures of Energy. San Francisco: Left Coast Press.

Winther, T. (2007): "Rising electricity consumption: Driving forces and consequences. The case of rural Zanzibar", Proceedings from ECEEE Conference 2007, Panel 9 “Dynamics of consumption”, Nice, France, June 2007.
 

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