Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

• Wilhite, H. (2008). "Consumption and the Transformation of Everday Life: A View from South India." Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (you are expected to read the complete book).
• Wilhite, Harold Langford (2016). "The Political Economy of Low Carbon Transformation: Breaking the Habits of Capitalism.", Routledge, available online through UiO (the book serves as additional reading throughout the course). 

Online

• Ackerman, Frank (1997). Consumed in Theory: Alternative Perspectives on the Economics of Consumption, Journal of Economic Issues, 31:3, 651-664
• 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.
• Cass, N., Schwanen, T. and Shove, E. (2018). Infrastructures, intersections and societal transformations, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 137, 160-167.
• Clayton, S. et al (2016). Expanding the role for psychology in addressing environmental challenges, American Psychologist, vol 71 (3), 199-215:
• 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¨C347
• Evans, DM (2018). What is consumption, where has it been going, and does it still matter?, The sociological review, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118764028
• Evans, D., Welch, D., and Swaffield, J. (2017). Constructing and mobilizing ¡®the consumer¡¯: Responsibility, consumption and the politics of sustainability, Environment and Planning A, Vl. 49 (6), 1396-1412.
• Fine, B. (2013). Consumption Matters. Ephemera, 13(2), 217-248.
• Goodwin, Tom (2012). Why we should reject ¡®nudge¡¯, Politics, Vol 32 (2), 85-92: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9256.2012.01430.x
• Gregson, N and Ferdous, R (2015) Making space for ethical consumption in the South, Geoforum, Vol 67. 244-255
• Guillen-Royo, M (2019): Sustainable consumption and wellbeing: Does on-line shopping matter? Journal of Cleaner Production, 229, 1112-1124.
• 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, A (2018): Meat consumption and capitalist development: The meatification of food provision and practice in Vietnam. Geoforum.  93, p. 57- 68 .
• 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, Nielsen 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 ¡ª 15
• Hetherington, Kevin (2011): ¡°Lifestyle¡±, in Southerton, Dale (Ed). Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture.
• Ivanova, D., Stadler, K., Steen-Olsen, K., Wood, R., Vita, G., Tukker, A., Hertwich, E.G. (2015). Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption, Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 20 (3).
• Michael, Janna (2015). It¡¯s really not hip to be a hipster: Negotiating trends and authenticity in the cultural field, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol 15 (2), 163-182.
• Otero, G., G¨¹rcan, E.C., Pechlaner, G., Liberman, G. (2018). Food security, obesity, and inequality: Measuring the risk of exposure to the neoliberal diet. Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 18 (3).
• Rojek, Chris. (2004). ¡°The Consumerist syndrome in Contemporary Society. An interview with Zygmunt Bauman¡± in Journal of Consumer Culture 4(3): 291 ¨C 312
• Sahakian, M and Wilhite, H (2014). Making practice theory practicable: Towards more sustainable forms of consumption, Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol. 14 (1), 25-44.
• 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.
• Urry, J. (2004). The ¡®System¡¯ of Automobility. Theory, Culture & Society, 21(4-5), 25-39
• Verbeek, P. (2006). Materializing morality: Design ethics and technology mediation. Science, Technology & Human Values 31(3): 361 ¨C 380.
• Verbeek, D and Mommaas, H. (2008). Transitions to Sustainable Tourism Mobility: The Social Practices Approach, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol. 16 (6).
• 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.
• Wilhite, H and Hansen, A. (2015). Reflections on the meta-practice of capitalism and its capacity for sustaining a low energy transformation, In Marie-Christine Zelem & Christoph Beslay (ed.), Sociologie de l'¨¦nergie. Gouvernance et pratiques sociales. CNRS Editions
• Wilk, R (2002). Consumption, human needs, and global environmental change. Global Environmental Change, Vol 12 (1), 5-13.
• Wilk, R. (2014). Consumer cultures past, present and future, in Ulph, A and Southerton D. (eds). Sustainable Consumption: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives In Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Oxford Scholarship Online.
• 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. (2015). 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¨C164.  New York: Routledge.
• 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¨C607.
• Winther, T. and Bell, S. (2018). Domsticating In Home Displays in Selected British and Norwegian Households, Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 31 (2).
• Young, M., Higham, J.E.S., Reis, A.C. (2014). ¡®Up in the air¡¯: A conceptual critique of flying addiction. Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 49.