Putting Sustainability into Practice

'For too long there has been a huge gap between thinking about sustainability, and actually doing something about it. This outstanding book questions the prevailing ''Norms and Nudge'' approach based on changing people's minds, and shows how practice theory can be used to move towards truly effective social change. This is a big step forward in rethinking the connection between consumerism and the limits of sustainability.' --Richard Wilk, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University'Sustainable consumption has become one of the most dynamic fields in the social sciences. Putting Sustainability Into Practice consistently demonstrates how the social practice approach has become the best alternative to behaviorist and rationalistic theories of social action and to nudge perspectives. It is definitely an insightful volume that should urgently be put into the hands of policy makers!' --Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, National Center for Scientific Research, Sciences Po, Paris, France '[T]he book is well-written and the theoretical discussions and empirical analyses are strong. The authors provide excellent models to assist the reader and the text is rich withsupporting materials such as summary tables, bar graphs, and flow charts . . . .The book stands as an appropriate supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate sustainability seminars. It would be an appropriate addition to college, university, and personal libraries as it provides the basis of continuing research for those working in the areas of social practice theory and sustainability.' --Michael Hirsch, International Social Science Review

Edited by Emily Huddart Kennedy, Washington State University, Maurie J. Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, US and Naomi Krogman, University of Alberta, Canada

Contents: PART I 1. Social Practice Theories and Research on Sustainable Consumption Emily Huddart Kennedy, Maurie J. Cohen, and Naomi T. Krogman PART II SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION 2. Contextualizing Social Practices: Insights into Social Change Debbie Kasper 3. Environmental Civic Practices: Synthesizing Individual and Collective Sustainable Consumption Emily Huddart Kennedy and Tyler Bateman 4. Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups as 'Citizenship Labs' Francesca Forno, Cristina Grasseni, and Silvana Signori PART III COLLECTIVE DIMENSIONS OF HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES 5. Beyond Behavior Change: Social Practice Theory and the Search for Sustainable Mobility Stewart Barr 6. Disentangling Practices, Carriers, and Production-consumption Systems: A Mixed-method Study of (Sustainable) Food Consumption Julia Backhaus, Harald Wieser, and Rene Kemp 7. Getting Emotional: Historic and Current Changes in Food Consumption Practices Viewed Through the Lens of Cultural Theories Marlyne Sahakian PART IV SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND SOCIAL INNOVATION 8. Researching Transitions to Sustainable Consumption: A Practice Theory Approach to Studying Innovations in Consumption Melanie Jaeger-Erben and Jana Ruckart-John 9. How Policy Frameworks Shape Environmental Practice: Three Cases of Alternative Dwelling Chelsea Schelly 10. 'Unleashing Local Capital': Scaling Cooperative Local Investing Practices Mike Gismondi, Juanita Marois, and Danica Straith PART V CONCLUDING REMARKS 11. Forging Further into Putting Sustainability into Practice Naomi T. Krogman, Maurie J. Cohen, and Emily Huddart Kennedy Index