Thesis

2

Journal articles

92
'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organising and urban practice
2015 Otto, Vollmer, Derwanz, Bialski 20 pp.
A Critical Review of the Role of Repair Cafés in a Sustainable Circular Transition
2021 Mosgaard, Moalem 26 pp.
After Practice? Material Semiotic Approaches to Consumption and Economy cited
2020 Evans 17 pp.
After taste: Culture, consumption and theories of practice
2014 Warde 25 pp.
An order of distinction (or, how to tell a collection from a hoard)
2018 Kilroy-Marac 19 pp.
Austerity and everyday life: Perspectives on practices of consumption and thrift
2019 Hulme 7 pp.
Austerity Ireland, the New Thrift Culture and Sustainable Consumption
2017 Murphy 17 pp.
Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle cited
2017 Eden 21 pp.
Calculating the Environmental Impact Reduction Due to Extended Lifespan of Clothing Through Clothing Swaps
2025 Jučienė, Gurauskienė, Kruopienė 22 pp.
Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing cited
2025 Fuentes, Tölg 19 pp.
Changing understandings of waste reduction and avoidance in moralities of thrift: A comparison of Mass Observers' narratives three decades apart cited
2022 Holmes, Ehgartner 10 pp.
Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care cited
2025 Närvänen, Mattila, Mesiranta, Koskinen 19 pp.
Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research
2020 Power, Williams 12 pp.
Citizen-Consumers as Agents of Change in Globalizing Modernity: The Case of Sustainable Consumption
2010 Spaargaren, Oosterveer 22 pp.
Closing the loop or squaring the circle? Locating generative spaces for the circular economy
2016 Hobson 17 pp.
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions
2022 Hirt, Keller, Sahakian 15 pp.
Consumer engagement in the circular economy: Exploring clothes swapping in emerging economies from a social practice perspective cited
2019 Boks, Pettersen, Camacho-Otero 16 pp.
Consumption
2011 Graeber 24 pp.
Consumption and Commodities
1995 Miller 22 pp.
Consumption and Theories of Practice cited
2005 Warde 23 pp.
Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review
2018 Boks, Pettersen, Camacho-Otero 25 pp.
Consumption Work in the circular economy: A research agenda. cited
2021 Welch, Wieser, Holmes, Wheeler, Hobson 8 pp.
Disposal and simple living: exploring the circulation of goods and the development of sacred consumption
2009 Cherrier 14 pp.
Everyday life after downshifting: Consumption, thrift, and inequality
2020 Lindsay, Humphery, Lane 15 pp.
Exploring the role of community-based enterprises in consumers' voluntary clothing disposition via UK swapping events using theory of social practice cited
2023 Normand, Henninger, Počinková, Cano 21 pp.
Food practices as part of daily routines: A conceptual framework for analysing networks of practices
2021 Castelo, Schäfer, Silva 10 pp.
Freecycling Markets as Sustainable Materialist Movements? Closing Reuse Circularity Loops in Singapore cited
2024 Yeoh, Tan 15 pp.
Friends, family and the circulation of used goods: overlooked sustainability practices
2025 Arunachalam, Lindsay, Raven, Lane 13 pp.
From circular consumers to carriers of (unsustainable) practices: socio-spatial transformations in the Circular City
2020 Hobson 5 pp.
Gift or commodity: what changes hands in the U.S. garage sale?
1997 Herrmann 21 pp.
Governing transitions in the sustainability of everyday life cited
2010 Shove, Walker 6 pp.
Grey greening: quiet sustainability at auto salvage yards
2022 Mašek 19 pp.
Growing in Motion: The Circulation of Used Things on Second-hand Markets cited
2015 Bohlin, Appelgren 26 pp.
Harnessing the Unruly: Anthropological Contributions in Applied Reuse Projects
2020 Bohlin, Appelgren 17 pp.
Home and the extended-self: Exploring associations between clutter and wellbeing
2021 Rogers, Hart 10 pp.
Household consumption at the crossroads: A bibliometric decoding of global sustainability trends, research gaps, and collaborative networks (2015-2025)
2025 Prahani, Cahyono, Kaharudin, Arisetyawan, Fisabilillah, Satriawan, Ghofur, Suprapto, Hutabarat, Andari, Restikasari, RoziqiFath 10 pp.
How temporal orientations trigger, nurture and sustain deep engagement with consumption practices
2025 Rosenthal 21 pp.
In Defense of Consumer Critique: Revisiting the Consumption Debates of the Twentieth Century
2007 Schor 15 pp.
Incidental sustainability? Notes from a thrift store in Germany
2023 Kuppinger 20 pp.
Learning like a Minimalist—Learning from a Minimalist. Consumers as Disseminators for Sustainable Clothes Usage
2021 24 pp.
Lifestyles of enough exploring sufficiency-oriented consumption behavior from a social practice theory perspective
2023 Kropfeld 22 pp.
Linking social practice theories to the perceptions of green consumption: An overview
2025 Jabin, Haq 12 pp.
Material culture and the circular economy
2023 Shove, Rinkinen 4 pp.
Materials changing the performance of the household energy consumption practices
2025 Kylkilahti, Syrjälä, Kääntä, Laitinen 19 pp.
My Journey within Practice-Based Approaches Bandwagon
2019 Pantzar 8 pp.
New spaces, ordinary practices: Circulating and sharing within diverse economies of provisioning cited
2018 Holmes 10 pp.
Not moving things along: hoarding, clutter and other ambiguous matter
2009 Maycroft 12 pp.
Object Relations in Accounts of Everyday Life
2015 Shove, Rinkinen, Jalas 16 pp.
On Materiality and Meaning: Ethnographic Engagements with Reuse, Repair & Care
2019 Isenhour, Reno 8 pp.
Online Clothing Resale: A Practice Theory Approach to Evaluate Sustainable Consumption Gains
2020 Armstrong, Park 24 pp.
Paradoxes of openness and distinction in the sharing economy
2016 Fitzmaurice, Poteat, Schor, Carfagna, Attwood-Charles 18 pp.
Practice theory approach to Gen Z’s sustainable clothing consumption in Finland cited
2024 Gurova 19 pp.
Practice-ing behaviour change: Applying social practice theory to pro-environmental behaviour change
2011 Hargreaves 21 pp.
Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe’s productive gardeners cited
2013 Smith, Jehlicka 10 pp.
Repair for a Broken Economy: Lessons for Circular Economy from an International Interview Study of Repairers
2021 McLaren, Niskanen, Anshelm 15 pp.
Repair Work as Care: On Maintaining the Planet in the Capitalocene
2025 Corwin, Gidwani 21 pp.
Reuse practices and household consumption work cited
2026 Evans, Jackson, Beswick-Parsons 21 pp.
Selling Thrift: Work Practices in an American Thrift Store cited
2023 Larsen 19 pp.
Social bases of material consumption: The relationship between social groups and possession of household appliances in Denmark
2019 Jacobsen 20 pp.
Sufficiency in social practice: searching potentials for sufficient behavior in a consumerist culture metadata only cited
2015 Hasselkuss, Speck
Sustainability as a Moral Discourse: Its Shifting Meanings, Exclusions, and Anxieties
2022 Lim, Kanoi, Dove, Yamada, Koh 17 pp.
Sustainable Consumption and Practice Theories: Connecting Elements of Clothing Sharing
2024 Duarte, Silva, Costa 25 pp.
The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field
2019 Corsini, Appio, Meinherz, Mora, Laurenti 19 pp.
The communities and materials of repair: collectively reflecting on repair practices of everyday artefacts
2026 Aktaş, Çiftçi 21 pp.
The Force of Things
2004 Bennett 27 pp.
The gift of waste: The diversity of gift practices among dumpster divers
2023 Pyyhtinen, Lehtonen 23 pp.
The Gift, the Indian Gift and the 'Indian Gift'
1986 Parry 22 pp.
The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy
2021 Hobson 20 pp.
The logics of frugality: Reproducing tastes of necessity among affluent climate change activists
2017 Boucher 10 pp.
The Minimalist Universe of Things. Living with Less in German Speaking Households
2023 Derwanz 18 pp.
The Political Economy of Circular Economies: Lessons from Future Repair Scenario Deliberations in Sweden
2023 McLaren, Niskanen 25 pp.
The Simple Bare Necessities: Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Public Housing Estate
2022 Alexander 32 pp.
The Sustainability of an Anthropology of the Anthropocene
2022 Eriksen 11 pp.
Theories of practices: Agency, technology, and culture
2011 Spaargaren 10 pp.
There is no sustainable circular economy without a circular society
2021 Jensen, Hofmann, Zwiers, Jaeger-Erben 2 pp.
Through the practice lens: Where is the bandwagon of practice-based studies heading?
2010 Corradi, Verzelloni, Gherardi 19 pp.
Toward an Ecology of Materials
2012 Ingold 20 pp.
Uncontained accumulation: Hidden heterotopias of storage and spillage
2018 Newell 6 pp.
Unpicking contemporary thrift: Getting on and getting by in everyday life
2019 Holmes 17 pp.
Valuation in action: Ethnography of an American thrift store
2019 Larsen 18 pp.
Vogel's Net
1996 Gell 25 pp.
Waste and the superfluous: an introduction
2017 Schober, Eriksen 6 pp.
Waste is not the end. For an anthropology of care, maintenance and repair
2017 Martínez 5 pp.
What does that shirt mean to you? Thrift-store consumption as cultural capital
2020 Steward 21 pp.
What future for collaborative consumption? A practice theoretical account
2019 Spaargaren, Fraanje 10 pp.
Whose Collection Is It Anyway? An Autoethnographic Account of `Dividing the Spoils' upon Divorce
2007 Goode 19 pp.
WITH and WITHOUT THINGS. AN INTRODUCTION
2023 Martínez, Errázuriz 15 pp.
‘It will Keep Circulating’: Loving and Letting Go of Things in Swedish Second-hand Markets
2019 Bohlin 11 pp.
‘It's Kind of Saving them a Job isn't it?’ The Consumption Work of Household Recycling
2015 Wheeler, Glucksmann 19 pp.
‘Nothing Comes Without Its World’: Thinking with Care
2012 Bellacasa 20 pp.
“If I don’t do it, it feels wrong”: embodying environmental ethical reflexivity through cultivation and enactment of practices cited
2024 Askholm 12 pp.
“Still good life”: On the value of reuse and distributive labor in “depleted” rural Maine cited
2020 Berry, Isenhour 16 pp.

Books

29
A Theory of Shopping metadata only cited
1998 Miller 180 pp.
Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies
1995 Miller 350 pp.
Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing cited
2016 Widlok 240 pp.
Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-hand Clothes
2015 Brooks 298 pp.
Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality cited
2003 Shove 236 pp.
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
1984 Bourdieu 646 pp.
Doing Anthropological Research: A Practical Guide
2014 Konopinski 244 pp.
Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond
2005 Fife 187 pp.
Elusive Consumption
2004 Brembeck, Ekström 254 pp.
From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary
2007 Gille 266 pp.
Household Recycling and Consumption Work cited
2015 Wheeler, Glucksmann 249 pp.
Materiality
2005 Miller 302 pp.
My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries
2016 Chin 248 pp.
Reflexive Ethnography: a guide to researching selves and others
1999 Davies 266 pp.
Second-Hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care
2025 Kuppinger 28 pp.
Social Practices: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Human Activity and the Social
1996 Schatzki 256 pp.
The Comfort of Things metadata only cited
2008 Miller 302 pp.
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
2017 Baudrillard 237 pp.
The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How It Changes cited
2012 Shove, Watson, Pantzar 206 pp.
The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish
2006 Hawkins 80 pp.
The Government of Things: Foucault and the New Materialisms
2021 Lemke 310 pp.
The Nexus of Practices: Connections, constellations, practitioners
2017 Hui, Shove, Schatzki 237 pp.
The Perception of the Environment: Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill
2000 Ingold 480 pp.
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory
2001 Savigny, Cetina, Schatzki 253 pp.
The World of Goods: Towards an anthropology of consumption
1996 Isherwood, Douglas 198 pp.
Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically
2007 Henare, Holbraad, Wastell 248 pp.
Thrift and its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy
2022 Alexander, Sosna 232 pp.
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture
2009 Shove, Trentmann, Wilk 251 pp.
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
1995 Shaw, Fretz, Emerson 136 pp.

Book chapters

12
Habits and Their Creatures
2012 Shove 13 pp.
The Habits of Consumption Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies pp. 100-112
Introduction. Storing and storying the serendipity of objects
2013 Laviolette 11 pp.
Things in Culture, Culture in Things Approaches to Culture Theory pp. 13-33
Introduction: commodities and the politics of value cited
1986 Appadurai 31 pp.
The Social Life of Things Cambridge University Press pp. 3-63
Sustainable consumption as a systemic challenge: inter- and transdisciplinary research and research questions
2015 Vergragt, Lorek 14 pp.
Handbook of Research on Sustainable Consumption Edward Elgar Publishing pp. 19-31
Sustainable Consumption, Behaviour Change Policies and Theories of Practice cited
2012 McMeekin, Southerton, Evans 17 pp.
The Habits of Consumption Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies pp. 113-129
Sustainable practices: social theory and climate change
2013 Shove, Spurling 22 pp.
Sustainable Practices Routledge pp. 17-30
The Assembling of Circular Consumption: A sociomaterial practice approach
2023 Fuentes, Närvänen, Mesiranta 15 pp.
The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy Routledge pp. 535-549
The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
1986 Kopytoff 15 pp.
The Social Life of Things Cambridge University Press pp. 64-92
The cultural dimension of sustainable consumption practices: an exploration in theory and policy
2013 Spaargaren 13 pp.
Innovations in Sustainable Consumption Edward Elgar Publishing
The Habits of Consumption cited
2012 Warde, Southerton 25 pp.
The Habits of Consumption Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies pp. 1-25
Theories of Practice and Sustainable Consumption cited
2015 Warde, Welch 17 pp.
Handbook of Research on Sustainable Consumption Edward Elgar Publishing pp. 84-100
Towards a Better Accounting of the Roles of Body, Things and Habits in Consumption
2012 Wilhite 13 pp.
The Habits of Consumption Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies pp. 87-99

Doctoral theses

3

Reports

2

Papers

4
A World of Many Worlds
2018 Blaser, Cadena 233 pp.
BFGLT5
10 pp.
ETHICAL CONSUMPTION
2012 Carrier, Luetchford 246 pp.
The Materiality of Nothing
2023 Holmes 163 pp.