Book
Wilhite, Harold Langford (2016). "The Political Economy of Low Carbon Transformation: Breaking the Habits of Capitalism.", Routledge, Chapters 1, 2 and 3 (a copy of the book is avaliable on 2nd floor at SUM).
Wilhite, H. (2008). "Consumption and the Transfomation of Everday Life: A View from South India." Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (you are expected to read the complete book).
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 3 and 4 ‘Disarray in the Theory of consumer Behaviour’, pp39-45, and 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.
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
Schor, J.B. (1998). Chapter 6 ‘Learning Diderot’s lesson: Stopping the upward creep of desire’ pp 143-167. In Schor J.B. The overspent American. New York: Harper Collins
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 (1999): "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.
Ackerman, Frank (1997). Consumed in Theory: Alternative Perspectives on the Economics of Consumption, Journal of Economic Issues, 31:3, 651-664
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.
Guillen-Royo, M. (2010) “Realising the 'wellbeing dividend' An exploratory study using the Human Scale Development approach”. Ecological Economics. ISSN 0921-8009. 70(2), s 384- 393
Hansen, Nilesen and Wilhite (2016), "Staying Cool, Looking Good, Moving Around: Consumption, Sustainability and the ‘Rise of the South’", Forum for Development Studies Vol. 43 , Iss. 1, 2016
Harriss, Robert and Shui, Bin (2010). Consumption, Not CO2 Emissions: Reframing Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainability, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 52: 6, 8 — 15
Standal, K. & Winther, T. (2016) Empowerment Through Energy? Impact of Electricity on Care Work Practices and Gender Relations, Forum for Development Studies, 43:1, 27-45
Warde, A. (2005). "Consumption and theories of practice". Journal of Consumer Culture 5:131-153.
Wilhite, H. (2012). Towards a better accounting of the roles of body, things and routines in consumption. In A. Warde and D. Southerton (eds), The Habits of Consumption. Helsinki: COLLeGIUM, Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 12:87-99.
Wilhite, Harold. 2013. A low-energy transformation will demand a disembodying of the growth imperative Harold Wilhite, Proceedings of the Conference 'Transforming in a changing climate', University of Oslo, 18- 22 June. pp.83-89
Other sources
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.
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.