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- Brembeck, Helene, 1952, et al.
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Shopping Routes : life phase, mobility and consumption
- 2014
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Ingår i: Midterm Conference of the Research Network of Sociology of Consumption (European Sociological Association) ESA, Porto Sept 3-6, 2014 (konferensbidrag).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Egels-Zandén, Niklas, 1978, et al.
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Supply chain transparency as a consumer or corporate tool: The case of Nudie Jeans Co
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Consumer Policy. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0168-7034 .- 1573-0700. ; 39:4, s. 377-395
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Outsourcing has led both to the embedding of questionable sustainability practices in opaque supply chains and to anti-sweatshop challenges demanding more transparent supply chains. Previous research has argued that supply chain transparency can be both a consumer tool empowering consumers to pressure disclosing firms to improve sustainability conditions, and a corporate tool for increasing revenues. Based on a study of the transparency project of Swedish company Nudie Jeans, we demonstrate that consumers do not leverage transparency but that transparency improves consumer willingness to buy. In doing this, we contribute to the literature in two important ways. First, we provide one of the first, if not the first, studies of whether consumers in practice leverage increased supply chain transparency, challenging the previous research claim that supply chain transparency is a useful consumer tool. Second, we move beyond studies of purchasing intentions and willingness to buy in experimental settings and confirm that supply chain transparency is a useful corporate tool in practice. We conclude by discussing the policy implications of companies being able to use transparency to increase sales without subjecting themselves to increased consumer pressure.
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- Gillberg, Daniel, et al.
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Urban Cultures: Fallet Kommersen
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Urban Cultures: Fallet Kommersen (Case Kommersen) This project builds upon knowledge derived from our previous work with Urban Cultures (se Gillberg et al 2012), which was a summary of both theoretical (cultural) perspectives on the city as well as cultural everyday doings within the city. Our conclusion then, which is our point of departure now, was that urban cultures needed the city to be an enabling city. This time we want to further explore this topic by investigating the city in real life. Our intention is modest and based on the humble thought of a possibility to add some positive insights from adding culture – as a methodological and analytic perspective, a concept and an empirical given – into the mix of ingredients commonly associated with the notion of sustainability. One way of reaching the sustainable city is thought to be by making the city dense. Therefore one of the aims of this project is to investigate what the concept cultural densification would consist of and what it would mean to use it within city planning. To do so we have chosen the flea market Kommersen at Masthuggstorget, Gothenburg as our case study. We argue that markets, and in this case an urban flea market, are important phenomena that contribute to sustainable urban cultures in specific ways depending on particular market mechanisms, organizational features and socio-cultural dimensions of the flea market. In conclusions we present the concept of sustainable cultural densification defined as: urban cultures are drivers of complex processes of layering of values over time. These values could be seen as solutions to different problems residing in cities, and a lens through which to perceive of sustainable urbanity.
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- Hansson, Niklas, 1977, et al.
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Consumover citizens and sustainability directives: views ‘from outside’ and “from within” consumers’ own logistics
- 2012
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Ingår i: Making Sense of Consumption, 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, May 30 - June 1, 2012 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper explores emergent urban governmentalities that constitute cycling and public transport as forms of sustainable transport. The aim of the paper is to discuss discrepancies between examples of sustainability politics and campaigns, and people’s everyday consumption logistics, using the analytical frame of mundane consumption practices and ethnographies of “consumovers”. In conclusion, we suggest that the entity of the consumover citizen is a more productive way of discussing sustainable transport and consumer-logistics and that it may accommodate a less exclusionary policy sensibility.
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- Hansson, Niklas, 1977, et al.
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Consumover Citizens and Sustainability Discourse: Practicing Consumer Agency through Moving with Commodities
- 2012
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Ingår i: Research in Consumer Behavior. - 0885-2111. ; 14, s. 255-276
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – In this chapter, we intend to discuss and analyse possibilities and policies for sustainable cities and mobility by linking these issues to ordinary consumption or shopping practices. We argue that sustainability discourses directed towards urban dwellers or citizens tend to express totalizing and exclusionary tendencies that obscure the situated dimensions of mobility practices generated through consumption. Design/methodology – Through an ethnographically informed exploration of everyday consumption practices we discuss discrepancies between examples of sustainability policies and campaigns on the one hand and mundane consumption practices on the other. Findings – The chapter concludes that there are some major discrepancies between official sustainability discourses and mundane consumption practices and introduces the concept of the ‘consumover citizen’ as a productive way of discussing sustainability. Originality/value – Introducing the concept of ‘consumover citizen’ is a novel way of conceptualizing sustainability in terms of who and what moves in the city regarding mobility generated by consumption practices.
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- Hansson, Niklas, 1977
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Ethnography of Family Consumption in Motion or To Follow Socio-material Assemblages: adding (moving) parts to an explanation of consumption
- 2012
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Ingår i: Making Sense of Consumption, 2nd Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, May 30 - June 1, 2012 Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In studies of consumption a focus on the experiences of bringing items back home are rare. Even though the history of self-service, mass retailing, and the birth of the mass consumer have been well documented there is little research on consumers’ physical moves and ways of acting while assembled along with purchases outside market places. In the project “Consumer Logistics” I focus on how different artifacts play a role in the arrangement of consumption practices among families with small children in Gothenburg. Looking at consumption through the lens of family consumotion deepen our understanding of how ‘things’ or ‘objects’ influence market attachment.
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