Amanda Krog Juvik's PhD defence at the Department of Sociology
Candidate
Amanda Krog Juvik, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Title
TOWARDS A LESS RESOURCE-INTENSIVE EVERYDAY LIFE?
- Exploring relations between food, mobility, and housing practices
Assessment Committee
- Jonas Toubøl, lektor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
- Margit Keller, lektor, Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu.
- Senja Laakso, lektor, Tampere University
Supervisor: Bente Halkier, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Host
Claire Maxwell, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Time and place
27 June 2024, between 13:00 - 16:00
Auditorium 1.1.18. (first floor building 1)
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Sciences, CSS,
Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 København K.
The PhD dissertation will be available through Academic Books as an e-publication.
After the defence, all are welcome to join us at a reception in meeting room 16.1.62 from around 15:00.
Meeting room 16.1.62 is in building 16, at the Department of Sociology.
English resume (shortened)
Recognizing the substantial role that household consumption plays in global emissions and climate change, particularly resource-intensive practices related to food, mobility, and housing, this PhD dissertation investigates how relations between food, mobility, and housing practices create implications for change towards less resource-intensive consumption in everyday life.
Focusing on everyday consumption, three key areas stand out for their carbon footprints: food, mobility, and housing. Significant changes across all three areas are essential to reduce emissions.
While current debates and research on sustainable consumption tend to focus on single consumption activities, this PhD dissertation examines the relations between resource-intensive practices across all three domains to understand their reproduction and potential for change.
Through longitudinal qualitative research with young Danish adults undergoing a transition to new housing and by drawing on theories of practice, the dissertation explores the commonalities, differences, and interrelations between food, mobility, and housing practices. It reveals how these practices are partially co-constitutive, -conditioned and -dependent.
For example, how co-dependencies between all three areas pushes consumption towards more resource-intensity through the upsizing of homes and reliance’s on car-based mobility.
Presented through four research articles, the thesis demonstrates how intersecting and mutually dependent practices of everyday life, along with material, social, and temporal conditions uphold the stability of resource-intensive consumption. In summary, the dissertation advances our understanding of (un)sustainable consumption by highlighting the complexities of changing how different practices are related to one another and interrelated in the everyday life.
It challenges conventional approaches to reducing household emissions, offering a comprehensive framework for understanding change and reproduction of resource-intensive consumption through an understanding of the relations between daily practices.
All are welcome to participate.