Multi-disciplinary studies of consumption have proliferated in the last two decades. Heavily
influenced by notions of 'the consumer'and tenets of 'the cultural turn', explanations have …

Brand experience is one of the most promising concepts to emerge in consumer research
over the last decade. However, unlike other brand-related concepts, it has often been …

Regardless of where we look in contemporary society, what is socially and culturally
expected on both the local and global levels is not the general but the particular. What is …

Names: Hui, Allison, editor.| Schatzki, Theodore R., editor.| Shove, Elizabeth, 1959–editor.
Title: The nexus of practices: connections, constellations and practitioners/edited by Allison …

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food
consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it …

This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new
energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four …

The article explores the perspectives of Foucault's notion of government by linking it to the
debate on the 'new materialism'. Discussing Karen Barad's critical reading of Foucault's work …

Academic literature on circular economy describes repair as an important strategy to prolong
the lifetime of products. However, repair is often analyzed in terms of business models or …

Ausgehend von der jüngsten Diagnose eines ‚Practice Turn 'in der Sozialtheorie und
empirischen Forschungspraxis arbeitet der Artikel Strukturmerkmale einer ‚Praxistheorie …

Within the environmental social sciences, theories of practices are used by an increasing
number of authors to analyze the greening of consumption in the new, global order of …