Young adults acquire furniture from retail stores, second-hand shops, flea markets, and
online marketplaces; they also inherit items from family members. While scholars have …

In the era of the Anthropocene and amidst a severe environmental crisis, part of humanity
has set out to imagine new ways of addressing global warming, hyperproduction of goods …

Introduction 6: 20 in the morning, I stretch out my arm–still without opening my eyes–until I
deactivate the alarm that shakes the mobile phone on the wooden bedside table. It's dark, I …

Studies on sustainable consumption have predominantly focused on first-hand consumers,
whereas research on second-hand consumers has been centered on the act of purchase …

This article discusses the role of basements in the settlement of relationships, allowing the
possibility of editing of one's own life and testing multiple sides of the self. Hence, it contests …

This theme issue deals with contemporary dispositions towards conserving or discarding
objects at home. It investigates practices of sorting and divesting through an ethnographic …

Over-consumption and the domestic abundance of things have become a problem in
affluent Western homes, which are full of new commodities and layers of lived things. At the …

In an era of affluence and overflow, minimalism presents a way to live with mindfulness and
care. Minimalists research and evaluate their surroundings and adapt them to a way of living …

Esineet ja materiaalisuus ymmärretään kulttuurien tutkimuksessa osana elämää, sosiaalisia
suhteita, järjestystä ja normeja (ks. esim. Appadurai 1986; Löfgren 2015; Bohlin 2019). Niitä …

In the era of the Anthropocene and amidst a severe environmental crisis, part of humanity
has set out to imagine new ways of addressing global warming, hyper-production of goods …