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Tullia Jack.

Tullia Jack

Biträdande universitetslektor, docent

Tullia Jack.

Sovereign dupes? Representations, conventions and (un)sustainable consumption

Författare

  • Tullia Jack

Summary, in English

If resource intensive practices are regularly represented as conventional, these potentially become naturalised and inconspicuous consumption will increase. Understanding how representations, conventions and everyday practices interact is thus fundamental in tackling unsustainable consumption. To gain new insights into how representations, conventions and practices interact, this paper explores how people respond to cleanliness representations in Swedish media. Cleanliness is chosen as a case for its role in accelerating water and energy consumption (Shove, 2003), and Sweden where cleanliness activities are in line with upward trends (Jack, 2017). Focus-group participants read magazines, discuss content and how it relates to their lives. Cleanliness is perceived as being intertwined with a host of co-conventions such as freshness, health, femininity, masculinity, sustainability, et cetera. Participants have strategies to receive and resist representations, and are especially averse to representations that they suspect are meant to increase consumerism. Dilemmas for participants do not arise from deciding when or how to receive or resist representations. The real dilemmas arise when integrating meanings into everyday life practices given the multiplicity of meanings. Participants see conventions as influencing wider society, but see themselves as individuals critically interacting with representations, a sovereign dupe 1 juxtaposition.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2022

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

331-358

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volym

22

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • Conventions
  • dupe
  • focus groups
  • inconspicuous consumption
  • media
  • practice
  • representations
  • sovereign
  • sustainability

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1469-5405