Tullia Jack
Biträdande universitetslektor, docent
Nobody was Dirty: disrupting inconspicuous consumption in laundry routines
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Summary, in English
Intervening into cleanliness conventions, 31 people in Melbourne were engaged to wear the same pair of jeans for three months without washing them. Transcripts from interviews about their experience were used to draw insights on how individual courses of actions are shaped by collective conventions. Participants’ experience of materiality, habits and cultural context indicate that to save environmental resources shifting collective conventions may be more effectual than challenging individual routines. This paper explores some of the opportunities in intervening into the inconspicuous consumption of laundry routines and shifting collective conventions towards low wash acceptance, with implications for other mundane resource-consuming lifestyle practices.
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
406-421
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Consumer Culture
Volym
13
Issue
3
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- collective conventions
- routine
- inconspicuous consumption
- interventions
- cleanliness
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1741-2900