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T. Cassidy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Encouraging Sustainable Behaviour Change via a Social Practice Approach: A Focus on Apparel Consumption Practices
    Journal of Consumer Policy, 2020
    Co-Authors: M. G. Mceachern, D. Middleton, T. Cassidy
    Abstract:

    To encourage greater sustainability regarding apparel Consumption Practices, policymakers have traditionally focused on economic and/or social psychology frameworks which rely on information-based campaigns to achieve behavioural change. Whilst such campaigns have had limited success and received significant criticism, additional policy solutions are called for. In contrast to conventional behavioural change strategies, this study responds to calls for further methodological insight and explores the potential of creative methods such as upcycling workshops and contemplative theatre performance, as Practice-based mechanisms to engender a greater understanding of the environmental impact of apparel Consumption and help bring about behavioural change to current apparel Consumption Practice. Via the theoretical lens of behavioural change theory and contemplative performance Practice, our findings reveal the dynamic and continuously reshaping nature of the apparel market, in that most of our participants were until recently unaware of the unsustainable nature of the apparel industry. Despite some participants citing barriers, such as a lack of time, peer pressure, and the desire to express a specific social identity, reactions to Practice-based methods were overwhelmingly positive. Thus, initiating a more proactive engagement with sustainability issues as well as increased reflection and discussion on how they might modify current apparel Consumption behaviours in the future. We conclude by making suggestions for policymakers regarding future sustainability initiatives.

Mary Greene - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • socio technical transitions and dynamics in everyday Consumption Practice
    Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions, 2018
    Co-Authors: Mary Greene
    Abstract:

    Abstract Understanding how social change has intersected with transformations in key resource-intensive domestic Consumption Practices that comprise part of the fabric and experience of daily living is of central relevance to questions of sustainable development. Despite recent advances in contextual approaches to Consumption, little is known about how wider socio-technical transitions have been experienced in the context of lived lives and everyday performances. As a result, sustainable development policies have been largely removed from the lived challenges and experiences people face in their daily lives. This paper explores the value of a human-centred, contextual approach to energy transitions research for revealing the intersections of lives, Practices and contexts in energy systems change. Investigating the question of how everyday Practices have intersected with processes of social-technical change, it reports on findings from a recent Irish-based qualitative biographic investigation of dynamics in domestic Consumption. Analysis reveals that a complex web of contextual processes, including technological change, economic transitions and planning policies, have shaped Consumption in the home. Furthermore, social differentiation in the lived experience of socio-technical change along dimensions of gender, social class and geography was observed. The paper concludes with reflections on the international relevance and implications of these findings for sustainable development policy, suggesting sustainable Consumption requires a much more fundamental challenge to social contexts than is recognised by dominant approaches. Here it is argued that human-centred, contextual approaches to sustainability transitions that consider social differentiation in complex lived experiences are necessary to design more integrated and resilient energy futures.

M. G. Mceachern - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Encouraging Sustainable Behaviour Change via a Social Practice Approach: A Focus on Apparel Consumption Practices
    Journal of Consumer Policy, 2020
    Co-Authors: M. G. Mceachern, D. Middleton, T. Cassidy
    Abstract:

    To encourage greater sustainability regarding apparel Consumption Practices, policymakers have traditionally focused on economic and/or social psychology frameworks which rely on information-based campaigns to achieve behavioural change. Whilst such campaigns have had limited success and received significant criticism, additional policy solutions are called for. In contrast to conventional behavioural change strategies, this study responds to calls for further methodological insight and explores the potential of creative methods such as upcycling workshops and contemplative theatre performance, as Practice-based mechanisms to engender a greater understanding of the environmental impact of apparel Consumption and help bring about behavioural change to current apparel Consumption Practice. Via the theoretical lens of behavioural change theory and contemplative performance Practice, our findings reveal the dynamic and continuously reshaping nature of the apparel market, in that most of our participants were until recently unaware of the unsustainable nature of the apparel industry. Despite some participants citing barriers, such as a lack of time, peer pressure, and the desire to express a specific social identity, reactions to Practice-based methods were overwhelmingly positive. Thus, initiating a more proactive engagement with sustainability issues as well as increased reflection and discussion on how they might modify current apparel Consumption behaviours in the future. We conclude by making suggestions for policymakers regarding future sustainability initiatives.

Aneta Monika Podkalicka - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

D. Middleton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Encouraging Sustainable Behaviour Change via a Social Practice Approach: A Focus on Apparel Consumption Practices
    Journal of Consumer Policy, 2020
    Co-Authors: M. G. Mceachern, D. Middleton, T. Cassidy
    Abstract:

    To encourage greater sustainability regarding apparel Consumption Practices, policymakers have traditionally focused on economic and/or social psychology frameworks which rely on information-based campaigns to achieve behavioural change. Whilst such campaigns have had limited success and received significant criticism, additional policy solutions are called for. In contrast to conventional behavioural change strategies, this study responds to calls for further methodological insight and explores the potential of creative methods such as upcycling workshops and contemplative theatre performance, as Practice-based mechanisms to engender a greater understanding of the environmental impact of apparel Consumption and help bring about behavioural change to current apparel Consumption Practice. Via the theoretical lens of behavioural change theory and contemplative performance Practice, our findings reveal the dynamic and continuously reshaping nature of the apparel market, in that most of our participants were until recently unaware of the unsustainable nature of the apparel industry. Despite some participants citing barriers, such as a lack of time, peer pressure, and the desire to express a specific social identity, reactions to Practice-based methods were overwhelmingly positive. Thus, initiating a more proactive engagement with sustainability issues as well as increased reflection and discussion on how they might modify current apparel Consumption behaviours in the future. We conclude by making suggestions for policymakers regarding future sustainability initiatives.