Books
Wilhite, Harold Langford (2016). "The Political Economy of Low Carbon Transformation: Breaking the Habits of Capitalism.", Routledge, Chapters 2, 3 and 7 (a copy of the book is available 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
Guillen-Royo, M (2016): 'Sustainable development, economic growth and human wellbeing' in Guillen-Royo, M. Sustainability and wellbeing. Human-scale development in practice. Routledge: Abingdon
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.
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.
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.
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. (2015) On the good life and rising electricity consumption in rural Zanzibar. In K. L. Syse and M. L. Mueller (eds), Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life. Interdisciplinary perspectives, Chapter 9, pp. 146–164. New York: Routledge.
Articles available 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.
Ackerman, Frank (1997). Consumed in Theory: Alternative Perspectives on the Economics of Consumption, Journal of Economic Issues, 31:3, 651-664
Ambler, Tim (2004). The new dominant logic of marketing: Views of the elephant, Centre for Marketing Working Paper No. 04-903, London Business School
Avineri, Erel (2012). On the use and potential of behavioural economics from the perspective of transport and climate change, Journal of Transport Geography, Vol. 24, 512-521.
Dwyer, R (2009): Making a Habit of It Positional Consumption, Conventional Action and the Standard of Living, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol 9(3): 328–347
Fine, B. (2013). Consumption Matters. Ephemera, 13(2), 217-248.
Grasso, M. (2017): “Achieving the Paris goals: Consumption-based carbon accounting”, Geoforum, Vol. 79, p. 93-96.
Guillen-Royo, M. (2010) “Realising the 'wellbeing dividend' An exploratory study using the Human Scale Development approach”. Ecological Economics. ISSN 0921-8009. 70(2), p. 384- 393
Hansen, A (2018a): Meat consumption and capitalist development: The meatification of food provision and practice in Vietnam. Geoforum. 93, p. 57- 68 .
Hansen, A (2018b): Consuming development: Capitalism, economic growth and everyday life. Developing Economics.
Hansen, A (2017): “Transport in transition: Doi moi and the consumption of cars and motorbikes in Hanoi”, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 17 (2), 378-396.
Hansen, A (2016): “Sustainable urbanisation in Vietnam: Can Hanoi bring back the bicycle?”, Tvergastein, Vol. 7, 34-41.
Hansen, A (2012): Sustainable Development and Consumption from Rio to Rio and Beyond, Tvergastein, Vol. 1, 60-67. (Also available in Fronter)
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
Hetherington, Kevin (2011): “Lifestyle”, in Southerton, Dale (Ed). Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture.
Jones, John P. (1990). Advertising: strong force or weak force? A dilemma for higher education, Syracuse Scholar Vol 10 (1), Article 6.
Rojek, Chris. (2004). “The Consumerist syndrome in Contemporary Socieity. An interview with Zygmunt Bauman” in Journal of Consumer Culture 4(3): 291 – 312
Schubert, Christian. 2017. "Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical?" Ecological Economics 132:329-342.
Shove, E (2014): Putting practice into policy: reconfiguring questions of consumption and climate change, Contemporary Social Science, Vol 9 (4): 415-429.
Tukker, A., M.J. Cohen, K. Hubacek and O. Mont (2010): “The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change”, Journal of Industrial Ecology ,Vol. 14 (1), 13-30
Urry, J (2004). "The 'System' of Automobility", Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 21, Issue 4-5
Verbeek, P. (2006). Materializing morality: Design ethics and technology mediation. Science, Technology & Human Values 31(3): 361 – 380.
Warde, A. (2005). "Consumption and theories of practice". Journal of Consumer Culture 5:131-153.
Warde, A (2011): “Food consumption”, in Southerton, D (ed): Encyclopedia of consumer culture
Warde, A (2017): “Introduction”, in Consumption: A sociological analysis. Manchester: Palgrave.
Weis, T (2016): “Towards 120 billion: Dietary change and animal lives”, Radical Philosophy, 199.
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
Wilk, R. (2018). Global junk: Who is to blame for the obesity epidemic?, RAE-Revista de Administra??o de Empresas, Vol. 58 (3)., 332-336
Winther, T. and H. Wilhite (2015). An analysis of the household energy rebound effect from a practice perspective: spatial and temporal dimensions. Energy Efficiency, 8(3), pp. 595–607.
Recommended readings
Articles:
Hamilton, C. (2009). Consumerism, self-creation and prospects for a new ecological consciousness. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18, 571-575.
Vakratsas, Demetrios and Tim Ambler (1999). How advertising works: What do we really know?, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 26-43
Books and book chapters:
Bourdieu, P. (1984). Part I of Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Slater, D. (1997). Consumer culture and modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Thaler, Richard and Sunstein, Cass (2008a): “Introduction”, in Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Thaler, Richard and Sunstein, Cass (2008b): Chapter 12: “Saving the planet”, in Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Veblen, T. (2005 [1899]). The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions. Delhi: Aakar Books.
Weis, Tony (2013). The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock, Zed Books, London
Wilk, Rick (2006). Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food From Buccaneers to Ecotourists. Berg, Oxford (2006)