The COVID-19 pandemic that first swept across the world in 2020 led to disruptions in habits
and routines—central themes in social practice approaches to consumption. Teaching was …

The phenomenon of the Covid-19 lockdown in New Zealand during 2020 enabled two
Higher Education (HE) lecturers to reflect on grappling with new technologies, changes in …

Evidence suggests that wider sociological structures, which embody particular values and
ways of relating, can make a sustainable living and working problematic. This chapter …

Background A key public health response to COVID-19 was to impose physical and social
distancing restrictions on all citizens (Lewnard and Lo, 2020). In Australia these restrictions …

In this article, we draw on phenomenon from an experiential learning project that invited
university students in Australia and Hong Kong to share their conceptions of wellbeing …

The Covid-19 crisis reveals that our expanding human population and globalised economic
system create unprecedented risks, such as massive new health threats that impact our …

When people learn from each other and change their behavior accordingly, this is called
social learning. COVID-19 not only taught us new habits to limit contagion, imposed …

Online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected student academic performance
as well as mental, physical, and social wellbeing. During a lockdown at the University of …

Critical posthumanism dislocates traditional ideas of the human as centre and ground of
ethical understanding. Instead, in posthumanist/new materialist mode, ethical considerations …

This chapter takes up the vital materialism perspective, particularly as it is used in political
theorist Jane Bennett's scholarship, to discuss the entanglements of digital data with …