# Assistant conversation L64G4R - Canonical URL: - Resource IRI: - Type: assistant conversation - Mode: quick ## Transcript ### 1. User "Care work, in the feminist tradition and its recent applications to circular consumption (Mesiranta et al. 2025; Tölg and Fuentes 2025; Hobson et al. 2021), names the relational and ethical orientation through which participants take this labour on, often without recognising it as work at all." do these citations make sense, do they support what we say here? ### 2. Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `search_text` ```json { "limit": 10, "query": "care work feminist circular consumption" } ``` #### Tool call: `search_text` ```json { "limit": 5, "query": "Mesiranta care" } ``` #### Tool call: `search_text` ```json { "limit": 5, "query": "Tölg Fuentes care" } ``` #### Tool call: `search_text` ```json { "limit": 5, "query": "Hobson care circular economy" } ``` ### 3. Tool result: search_text Exact matches 1. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #82G2QE Holding It Together: Care and Consumption Work in Brīvbode #75D5UH Conclusion Matching paragraph #5YXGE6: This chapter has examined the labour that sustains freecycling in Brīvbode, finding it distributed across structural, ethical, and gendered dimensions that existing circular economy frameworks tend to overlook. Wheeler and Glucksmann’s consumption work concept names the structure: tasks that paid institutions would perform in formal retail or waste management contexts are here absorbed by unpaid volunteers and participants, distributed across modal and processual dimensions that stretch well beyond the freeshop itself. The feminist ethics of care and its recent applications to circular consumption (Mesiranta et al. 2025; Tölg and Fuentes 2025), together with Bankovska’s (2020) care not-work and Graeber’s (2018) account of work as what just needs to be done, name the orientation: much of this labour is not transferred from institutions onto reluctant consumers but self-imposed through ethical commitment and care – activities people perform because they cannot bring themselves not to. Miller (1998) names who bears it: consistently and disproportionately women, from household sorting and routing to managing others’ generosity to transmitting these competencies to the next generation. 2. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #82G2QE Holding It Together: Care and Consumption Work in Brīvbode Matching paragraph #EF5DET: The chapter is organized by two complementary registers. Consumption work (Wheeler and Glucksmann 2015) names the tasks the practice demands – acquiring, sorting, maintaining, divesting, transporting – and tracks how they are distributed across technical, modal, and processual dimensions of the division of labour. Care work, in the feminist tradition and its recent applications to circular consumption (Mesiranta et al. 2025; Tölg and Fuentes 2025; Hobson et al. 2021), names the relational and ethical orientation through which participants take this labour on, often without recognising it as work at all. 3. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 53 Context: #T6KQ92 Introduction #M8A82T The overarching ‘practice theories’ approach to producing and performing consumption #T6A5TK Research paper 3 – Care-in-practice Matching excerpt #W2LSKS: The third research paper explores the performance of circular consumption in everyday lives of households. Theoretically, it draws on the theories of practice approach to consumption from the sociology of consumption (Warde, 2005), combined with the feminist scholarship on care (Fisher and Tronto, 1990; Tronto, 1993). In the paper, we (together with Christian Fuentes as second author) wanted to understand how care is involved in performing circular consumption. Previous studies argue that in circular consumption, consumers are asked to care for belongings as well as for distant and future others (Ackermann, 2018; Jaeger-Erben et al., 2021; Rabin and Jaeger-Erben, 2022). However, while care has been part of discussions in consumption studies in the 4. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 98 Context: #KBKAA9 Concluding discussion #NA5VDS Performing circular consumption and its (im)possibilities Matching excerpt #7FDERL: So how do consumers perform circular consumption in this challenging landscape? With the findings of research paper 3 – Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing – and research paper 4 – Circular consumption and valuation work: Enacting circularity in everyday clothing practices – this dissertation highlights care and valuation work as specific aspects of circular practices that consumers try to draw on and perform for the successful performance of circular consumption. Understanding the enactment of care and the valuation work in circular practices adds further layers to our understanding of how consumers carry out the efforts involved with performing circular consumption in a landscape that is configured for linear modes of consumption. 5. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 104 Context: #KBKAA9 Concluding discussion #92JYP3 Research contributions #NB97RR Complexity of care and valuation work in circular consumption Matching excerpt #TAFRUY: Thus, the present dissertation contributes by showing that moral orientations of circular consumption need support, also from market materialities. Looking at how circular pathways break due to (im)possibilities of care and valuation work helped to outline under what conditions the performance of circular consumption fails. As consumers try to enact care or the valuation work needed for circular practices, it becomes visible how resources are missing for this extended and integral work. Consumers, despite going at times to great lengths to deliver various forms of care, and combat the devaluing of products, often defect to linear modes of consumption. Thus, the present dissertation adds a caution that different moral orientations of circular consumption do not necessarily involve a successful performance of circular consumption. Retail settings, as part of the wider landscape, need to provide support in delivering care and carrying out the valuation work needed for circular practices. 6. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 89 Context: #T6KQ92 Introduction #CJTF2K Research paper findings #786WQP Research paper 3 #86QEGH Title: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing Matching excerpt #VP8FU5: We contribute to sociological circular consumption research that previously showed the ethical and consumption work involved with circular consumption (Hobson et al., 2021; Lehtokunnas et al., 2022; Närvänen et al., 2023; Sutcliffe, 2022), as well as the challenges of performing circular consumption (Åberg and Greene, 2024; Wethal and Hoff, 2024). In our study, we add to this research stream in several ways. We first show how care practices are intertwined with circular consumption, by illustrating how the work involved with circular consumption can be perceived as more meaningful through care, and how the challenges of circular consumption can, at least partly, be understood as problems in enacting the care practices. Second, with our findings, we add to the somewhat ignored social and relational aspects of performing circular consumption (see also Meißner, 2021; Morrow and Davies, 2022), by showing how participants cared for known or unknown others through performing circular clothing consumption. Lastly, with the findings on the problems and failures of enacting care practices, we show that it is not enough for consumers to be concerned and take responsibility for others. For care enactments, and hence for the performance of circular consumption, resources must be present. These resources were often lacking in the wider market arrangements. 7. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 100 Context: #KBKAA9 Concluding discussion #NA5VDS Performing circular consumption and its (im)possibilities Matching excerpt #NS8ZFH: In summary, the performance of circular consumption in the challenging linear landscape involves and often hinges on how care for garments, and through that care for close and distant others can be enacted, as well as on how valuation work to combat the deterioration and devaluation of products can be carried out by consumers. However, the possibilities for both care and valuation work are limited through the surrounding socio-material landscape, inclusive of the different retail settings as well as home infrastructures. The insights into problems with care and valuation work illustrate the conditions under which circular consumption is challenging to perform. Papers 3 and 4 reveal that such (im)possibilities of circular consumption connect to the problems in delivering care and performing the work of valuing clothes in circular ways, which challenges are brought about by the lack of socio-material support in household and wider infrastructures including retailers. 8. Source: Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care (#BQ2W57), Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta, Outi Koskinen, p. 1 Context: #NLZXGJ Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care #88E4W4 Introduction Matching excerpt #CXYF5V: In this article, we ask the following question: How are circular consumption practices enacted as matters of care? We adopt a thinking-with-theory approach (Jackson & Mazzei, 2011, 2013) wherein the posthuman feminist theorising of care shaped our engagement with the empirical world. Our empirical material was constructed in two research projects in Finland focusing on frontrunner consumers in different forms of circular consumption: food waste reduction and circular clothing consumption. These two complementary contexts helped us to conceptually develop our interpretation of circular consumption practices as matters of care. The article contributes primarily to literature on circular 9. Source: Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care (#BQ2W57), Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta, Outi Koskinen, p. 0 Context: #NLZXGJ Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care #QC3DNJ Abstract Matching excerpt #BWGPV6: While a circular economy (CE) paradigm shift has gained significant momentum among academics, practitioners, and policymakers, theory regarding its social aspects remains scant , especially theory based on an ethical, micro-level perspective . Circular consumption, referring to those consumption practices that aim to extend the lifetimes of objects and materials, involves ethical considerations. However, everyday circular consumption and its ethics have not gained a foothold in the CE literature . This article builds on the existing circular consumption literature by drawing insights from the posthuman feminist theorising of care, shifting the focus of care from humans to the complex relations between humans and nonhumans and conceptualising circular consumption practices as matters of care . This conceptualisation, which follows a thinking-with-theory approach, is based on empirical material constructed in two research projects focusing on frontrunner consumers in terms of circular consumption in Finland: food waste reduction and circular clothing consumption. We identify circular consumption as care by introducing three distinct perspectives: care as tinkering, care as affective practices, and care as ethico-political action . We show that approaching circular consumption practices as matters of care, while not always easy or straightforward, is an attempt to make consumption better : more attentive, inclusive, durable, and enjoyable . Our findings emphasise the interconnected nature of circular practices, the constant performativity of circular consumption, and nonhumans as crucial stakeholders in care relations. Consequently, we offer an alternative to technocentric CE perspectives and a way to promote a sustainable world through care. 10. Source: Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care (#BQ2W57), Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta, Outi Koskinen, p. 0 Context: #NLZXGJ Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care #QC3DNJ Abstract Matching excerpt #8LYGAE: Keywords Care · Circular consumption · Feminist ethics · Ethics of care · Posthumanism · Qualitative study Approximate matches 1. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #82G2QE Holding It Together: Care and Consumption Work in Brīvbode #75D5UH Conclusion Score: 0.712 Related paragraph #5YXGE6: This chapter has examined the labour that sustains freecycling in Brīvbode, finding it distributed across structural, ethical, and gendered dimensions that existing circular economy frameworks tend to overlook. Wheeler and Glucksmann’s consumption work concept names the structure: tasks that paid institutions would perform in formal retail or waste management contexts are here absorbed by unpaid volunteers and participants, distributed across modal and processual dimensions that stretch well beyond the freeshop itself. The feminist ethics of care and its recent applications to circular consumption (Mesiranta et al. 2025; Tölg and Fuentes 2025), together with Bankovska’s (2020) care not-work and Graeber’s (2018) account of work as what just needs to be done, name the orientation: much of this labour is not transferred from institutions onto reluctant consumers but self-imposed through ethical commitment and care – activities people perform because they cannot bring themselves not to. Miller (1998) names who bears it: consistently and disproportionately women, from household sorting and routing to managing others’ generosity to transmitting these competencies to the next generation. 2. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #82G2QE Holding It Together: Care and Consumption Work in Brīvbode Score: 0.71 Related paragraph #EF5DET: The chapter is organized by two complementary registers. Consumption work (Wheeler and Glucksmann 2015) names the tasks the practice demands – acquiring, sorting, maintaining, divesting, transporting – and tracks how they are distributed across technical, modal, and processual dimensions of the division of labour. Care work, in the feminist tradition and its recent applications to circular consumption (Mesiranta et al. 2025; Tölg and Fuentes 2025; Hobson et al. 2021), names the relational and ethical orientation through which participants take this labour on, often without recognising it as work at all. 3. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 10 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #TV3KCQ Results and analysis: care in performing circular clothing practices #XCGXLM Caring for clothes as a way of caring for social others Score: 0.712 Related excerpt #5W4VGS: To summarise, these examples highlight that performing circular consumption involves connecting care for clothes with care for environmental and social needs. While enacting these practices involves demanding and gendered consumption work, our analysis suggests that this work is considered more meaningful if it allows consumers to deliver care. Lastly, our analysis foregrounds the often-neglected relational aspect of circular consumption. Examining the enactment of care suggests that the relationality involved in caring for closer and distant others can further assist the successful performance of circular clothing consumption. 4. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 14 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #NBA5ZR Discussion and conclusion Score: 0.71 Related excerpt #8G8RM8: To conclude, as well as showing how enactments of care both enable and shape the performance of circular consumption, this analysis has discussed the struggles and dilemmas that arise in this process. However, while our analysis suggests that care is crucial in making the time-demanding performance of circular consumption meaningful, we do not wish to downplay the difficulties involved in performing this mode of consumption. Instead, our analysis of the care enactments involved in the performance of circular consumption shows that not only do consumers looking to be circular have to develop appropriate skills and be able to access the necessary infrastructures but they also have to enact a specific way of caring. This added burden has been shown to fall disproportionately on women (see also Godin and Langlois, 2021). By understanding the role of care in circular consumption, we can thus better understand how to make circular consumption possible and critically assess the negative outcomes of this economic reconfiguration programme. 5. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 2 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #QR437R Introduction Score: 0.705 Related excerpt #WR6R66: Sutcliffe, 2022). These studies have shown the often highly gendered completing and complementing work (Glucksmann, 2016) that consumers undertake, for instance, in composting and repair activities (Sutcliffe, 2022) or in household recycling (Wheeler and Glucksmann, 2015). In line with this, we also approach circular consumption as a social, cultural and material phenomenon whose performance is demanding for consumers and tightly connected to everyday life. However, with a focus on care, we add that most forms of circular consumption involve and are enabled and shaped by enactments of care. We will take a particular interest in the problems involved in the enactment of care and how these issues stand in the way of the performance of circular consumption. 6. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 13 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #NBA5ZR Discussion and conclusion Score: 0.697 Related excerpt #RQVYTZ: These findings contribute to sociologically oriented, circular consumption research in several ways. First, we show that the notion of care needs to be taken into account when trying to understand and enable circular consumption. While conceptual work on circular consumption has highlighted the potential relevance of care for circularity (Hobson et al, 2021; Greene et al, 2024), this topic has received little focused empirical attention. We address this paucity, showing that the performance of circular consumption not only involves specific socio-material arrangements, know-how, time and consumer labour but is also enabled and shaped by the enactment of care. Care awareness, responsibility-taking, and access and mobilisation of care resources were all crucial to the performance of circular clothing consumption. 7. Source: Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care (#BQ2W57), Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta, Outi Koskinen, p. 6 Context: #NLZXGJ Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care #9VRA54 Findings Score: 0.726 Related excerpt #MR3QFV: In this section, we elaborate on circular consumption as care, viewing care as tinkering, affective practices, and ethico-political action. The elaboration is based on our goal of thinking with theory and, consequently, the way in which we sensitised ourselves to posthuman feminist theorising of care, made interpretations using it, and the constructed empirical material. Throughout this section, we wish to show how care plays an important role in weaving together the tangled threads of consumption so that more circularity is achieved. 8. Source: Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care (#BQ2W57), Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta, Outi Koskinen, p. 0 Context: #NLZXGJ Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care #QC3DNJ Abstract Score: 0.709 Related excerpt #8LYGAE: Keywords Care · Circular consumption · Feminist ethics · Ethics of care · Posthumanism · Qualitative study 9. Source: Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care (#BQ2W57), Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta, Outi Koskinen, p. 1 Context: #NLZXGJ Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care #88E4W4 Introduction Score: 0.704 Related excerpt #UDVY6T: An ethics of care perspective (Fisher & Tronto, 1990; Tronto, 1993, 2013) has been adopted by ethical consumption scholars, such as members of the Care Collective. In their Care Manifesto, it has been noted that the world we live in is structurally careless and that to create a sustainable, inclusive future, more care is needed at multiple levels on the part of various actors (Chatzidakis et al., 2020). We join this discussion and continue the Hobson et al.’s (2021) call to explore circular consumption through the lens of the ethics of care. We argue that care does exist within the circular consumption practices of frontrunner consumers who interact with various consumption objects on a daily basis to extend their lifetimes. These frontrunners have actively sought to change their own everyday consumption practices and move towards circularity and have shared and discussed these practices with others either on social media or in their local community. Frontrunners’ circular consumption practices have developed over the course of their lives because of complex processes, including “socialisation experiences, and continually evolving personal relationships, social roles, material contexts and forms of capital” (Greene & Royston, 2022, p. 272; see also Ortega Alvarado et al., 2023). 10. Source: Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care (#BQ2W57), Elina Närvänen, Malla Mattila, Nina Mesiranta, Outi Koskinen, p. 0 Context: #NLZXGJ Circular Consumption Practices as Matters of Care #QC3DNJ Abstract Score: 0.701 Related excerpt #BWGPV6: While a circular economy (CE) paradigm shift has gained significant momentum among academics, practitioners, and policymakers, theory regarding its social aspects remains scant , especially theory based on an ethical, micro-level perspective . Circular consumption, referring to those consumption practices that aim to extend the lifetimes of objects and materials, involves ethical considerations. However, everyday circular consumption and its ethics have not gained a foothold in the CE literature . This article builds on the existing circular consumption literature by drawing insights from the posthuman feminist theorising of care, shifting the focus of care from humans to the complex relations between humans and nonhumans and conceptualising circular consumption practices as matters of care . This conceptualisation, which follows a thinking-with-theory approach, is based on empirical material constructed in two research projects focusing on frontrunner consumers in terms of circular consumption in Finland: food waste reduction and circular clothing consumption. We identify circular consumption as care by introducing three distinct perspectives: care as tinkering, care as affective practices, and care as ethico-political action . We show that approaching circular consumption practices as matters of care, while not always easy or straightforward, is an attempt to make consumption better : more attentive, inclusive, durable, and enjoyable . Our findings emphasise the interconnected nature of circular practices, the constant performativity of circular consumption, and nonhumans as crucial stakeholders in care relations. Consequently, we offer an alternative to technocentric CE perspectives and a way to promote a sustainable world through care. ### 4. Tool result: search_text Exact matches 1. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #82G2QE Holding It Together: Care and Consumption Work in Brīvbode #N8D3HT Time to Give: Volunteers and the Sufficiency Lifestyle Matching paragraph #FT6K3G: The volunteers’ time-rich, sufficiency-oriented lives make Brīvbode’s unpaid consumption work possible. They are also what makes possible a form of community-based care that non-profit organisations and local communities can offer to “balance marketised care,” with “clothes-swapping events” listed alongside repair cafés and community fridges as exactly this kind of arrangement (Mesiranta et al. 2025: 26). Sufficiency is the structural condition for both consumption work and care work: it is what makes the labour Brīvbode requires possible, and what allows that labour to be undertaken as care. 2. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #9GJAHS LIST OF SOURCES Matching paragraph #3HCC78: Mesiranta, N., Mattila, M., Koskinen, O. and Närvänen, E. (2025) ‘Circular consumption practices as matters of care’, Journal of Business Ethics, 200, pp. 13–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05888-5 3. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 104 Context: #KBKAA9 Concluding discussion #92JYP3 Research contributions #NB97RR Complexity of care and valuation work in circular consumption Matching excerpt #97CK6W: Furthermore, this dissertation adds that care and valuation work is not only complex within the households but is also complicated by the access to supporting materialities, for instance, in retail settings. The findings on the importance of care, responsibility-taking and values of circular consumption somewhat align with the arguments of Lehtokunnas et al. (2022), who explored the ethical work in waste handling practices of households. Furthermore, similar processes have also been explored by Mesiranta et al. (2024), who studied care as tinkering, affective practice and ethico-political action as part of clothing and food waste-related circular practices. The present dissertation adds to these studies by drawing out how such moral orientations are not only challenged but can also be failed by the linear landscape. While both Lehtokunnas et al. (2022) and Mesiranta et al. (2024) outline some issues with caring and ethical acts, care and ethics as the goals of practices are understood as the help through which circularity can be performed. This dissertation shows that under certain conditions, caring about others, taking moral responsibility and alternative registers of valuing are not 'strong' enough driving forces of circularity projects. Problems in care and valuations, for instance, due to a lack of care resources or valuation devices in linear landscapes, can hinder the performance of circular consumption. 4. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 83 Context: #T6KQ92 Introduction #CJTF2K Research paper findings #EPQXDD Research paper 1 #QSCNH6 Title: Selling of care offerings and the ethicalisation of consumption Matching excerpt #QBFB9F: Taking these findings to sociological circular consumption research shows how circular consumption is produced through the notion of care. Studies started to engage with the moral and ethical dimension of circular consumption in households (Lehtokunnas et al., 2022; Mesiranta et al., 2024) and the ethics of care needed for circular consumption (Hobson et al., 2021), as well as how care and circularity are connected in green marketing (Heidenstrøm, 2025). This paper adds to these studies by showing how ethics and caring are socio-materially made to be central to the circular consumption that is produced in retail settings. The paper illustrates how shaping ethical consumption through care is part of the retailers’ circularity strategies and efforts to produce circular consumption. Thus, the findings illustrate that by producing circular consumption in retail settings, circular consumption becomes wrapped in care. In the selling of care offerings, the primary focus shifts from garments’ technical properties, aesthetic or use value, to how they should be taken care of to extend their lifetimes and make them more circular. The way these offerings are socio-materially prepared for exchange illustrates how specific, care-related forms of circular consumption are produced in retail settings. 5. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#FYG32U), Ieva Lange Context: #BA7Z5L LIST OF SOURCES Matching paragraph #G7RF8K: Mesiranta, N., Mattila, M., Koskinen, O. and Närvänen, E. (2025) ‘Circular consumption practices as matters of care’, Journal of Business Ethics, 200, pp. 13–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05888-5 Approximate matches 1. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #9GJAHS LIST OF SOURCES Score: 0.396 Related paragraph #3HCC78: Mesiranta, N., Mattila, M., Koskinen, O. and Närvänen, E. (2025) ‘Circular consumption practices as matters of care’, Journal of Business Ethics, 200, pp. 13–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05888-5 2. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#FYG32U), Ieva Lange Context: #BA7Z5L LIST OF SOURCES Score: 0.396 Related paragraph #G7RF8K: Mesiranta, N., Mattila, M., Koskinen, O. and Närvänen, E. (2025) ‘Circular consumption practices as matters of care’, Journal of Business Ethics, 200, pp. 13–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05888-5 3. Source: Materiality (#R26U48), Daniel Miller, p. 126 Context: #49Y6EC MATERIALITY #Y3AJPK Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing #HYNC67 A STICKY SUBJECT Score: 0.322 Related excerpt #K8HVQP: As with many fieldworkers, my research was punctuated by a number of ailments, both real and imagined. As well-known healers, the Masowe prophets took a polite interest in my well-being. In an effort to maintain some critical distance from the church, however, I tried to be careful about what I shared regarding my health, and also what I took from the prophets when they did manage to extract a complaint or observe a symptom. This was not always easy, and on one occasion I found myself the recipient of one of their more significant preparations. It is called holy honey and, as far as the Masowe are concerned, it is the most effective spiritual medicine. While primarily used to fight the ill effects of witchcraft, it was thought the honey might also relieve my this-worldly ailments. 4. Source: Materiality (#R26U48), Daniel Miller, p. 135 Context: #49Y6EC MATERIALITY #Y3AJPK Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing #5VY2L2 PEBBLES AND PRAYERS Score: 0.297 Related excerpt #38MYF5: To an apostolic, holy honey and aspirin are not substances of the same kind. The other ways in which Masowe refer to their spiritual medicines make this clear. Indeed, "the relation between material things and immaterial meanings . . . must be effected through speech" (Keane 1998: 28). For the weChishanu this is reflected quite literally in the religious terminology of their therapeutics. To wit, any medicine a prophet provides is known more precisely as a "prayer" (Shona: muteuro ). Embodying the principle of a "live and direct" faith, apostolic medicines are spoken of as speech acts. They are prayers, not things. And so the difference between biomedicine and spiritual medicine is the latter's immaterial qualities. 5. Source: Patchworks of Care - ETHICS AND PRACTICE OF CARE IN THE ORGANIC FOOD MOVEMENT IN LATVIA (#ZC3PHV), Agnese Bankovska, p. 68 Context: #6HSN74 Chapter 1Introduction #8AYGN6 History: care about nature and small farms #J4YRD5 Back to the land, back to small, towards organic Score: 0.312 Related excerpt #NVPZRR: Mārtiņš' (3ha agricultural land; 7.5h with forest) and Inta's farm (22ha of agricultural land; 120ha with forest) specialized in herbal teas and medicinal and pot herbs, while Ziedīpi farm main business was poultry but they also worked with organic raspberries that were sold to the local fruit processing company. ### 5. Tool result: search_text Exact matches 1. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #9GJAHS LIST OF SOURCES Matching paragraph #C84FMM: Tölg, R. and Fuentes, C. (2025) ‘Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing’, Consumption and Society, 4(2), pp. 213–231. https://doi.org/10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000032 2. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #82G2QE Holding It Together: Care and Consumption Work in Brīvbode Matching paragraph #EF5DET: The chapter is organized by two complementary registers. Consumption work (Wheeler and Glucksmann 2015) names the tasks the practice demands – acquiring, sorting, maintaining, divesting, transporting – and tracks how they are distributed across technical, modal, and processual dimensions of the division of labour. Care work, in the feminist tradition and its recent applications to circular consumption (Mesiranta et al. 2025; Tölg and Fuentes 2025; Hobson et al. 2021), names the relational and ethical orientation through which participants take this labour on, often without recognising it as work at all. 3. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 16 Context: #NT2RTR List of Papers #YKL99V Paper 3 Matching excerpt #P4DW44: Tölg R and Fuentes C (2024) Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing. Consumption and Society . https://doi.org/10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000032 (Epub ahead of publication) 4. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 0 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #XWHMFG Key messages Matching excerpt #P4KBG8: To cite this article: Tölg, R. and Fuentes, C. (2025) Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing, Consumption and Society , 4(2): 213–231, DOI: 10.1332/27528499Y2024D00000032 5. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#FYG32U), Ieva Lange Context: #BA7Z5L LIST OF SOURCES Matching paragraph #W6LLFR: Tölg, R. and Fuentes, C. (2025) ‘Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing’, Consumption and Society, 4(2), pp. 213–231. https://doi.org/10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000032 Approximate matches 1. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #9GJAHS LIST OF SOURCES Score: 0.449 Related paragraph #C84FMM: Tölg, R. and Fuentes, C. (2025) ‘Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing’, Consumption and Society, 4(2), pp. 213–231. https://doi.org/10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000032 2. Source: The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings (#8EVNK8), Réka Tölg, p. 7 Context: #V7X3B2 The (im)possibilities of circular consumption Score: 0.452 Related excerpt #H597SF: Réka Tölg 3. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 0 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing Score: 0.406 Related excerpt #DBA3NN: Réka Tölg, reka.tolg@ses.lu.se Christian Fuentes, christian.fuentes@ses.lu.se Lund University, Sweden 4. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#FYG32U), Ieva Lange Context: #BA7Z5L LIST OF SOURCES Score: 0.449 Related paragraph #W6LLFR: Tölg, R. and Fuentes, C. (2025) ‘Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing’, Consumption and Society, 4(2), pp. 213–231. https://doi.org/10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000032 5. Source: WITH and WITHOUT THINGS. AN INTRODUCTION (#ZNC4FL), Francisco Martínez, Tomás Errázuriz, p. 1 Context: #DZFGF9 WITH and WITHOUT THINGS. AN INTRODUCTION Score: 0.384 Related excerpt #EBA4VD: ✉ FRANCISCO.MARTINEZ@TUNLI.FI ### 6. Tool result: search_text Exact matches 1. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 1 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #QR437R Introduction Matching excerpt #A42MYV: Circular consumption involves consumer practices that work towards extending product lifetimes and enabling multiple cycles of use and recycling (Mylan et al, 2016; Hobson, 2020; Sutcliffe, 2022). Accordingly, in a circular system, consumers need to acquire, use, look after and part with products in ways that recirculate or reuse materials and minimise waste. Therefore, consumers are asked to care for their belongings (Ackermann, 2018; Jaeger-Erben et al, 2021; Rabiú and Jaeger-Erben, 2022) while at the same time care for the environment and future generations. Although seldom made explicit, consumer care is thus built into the circular economy project. For example, consumers are asked to care for packaging – recycle, wash and fold it – and sort it into the appropriate bins. Consumers are also asked to care for food, plan their food shopping, ‘rescue’ food close to its expiration date and make meals from leftovers to reduce food waste. Furthermore, as this article will explore in more detail, they are urged to repair their clothes, wash them sparingly, and protect them from wear and tear. All these prompts are aimed at not only caring for consumption objects but also at caring for the environment, the welfare of distant others and future generations. 2. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 1 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #QR437R Introduction Matching excerpt #ZDP99W: In recent years, the circular economy has attracted considerable scholarly and societal attention (Merli et al, 2018; Hobson, 2020). Circularity advocates – such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2013) – and policy documents – such as the European Commission (2020) – argue for the transition to a more circular and therefore also a more materially efficient economy (Ortega Alvarado et al, 2021). The circular economy programme sets out to break with the take-make-dispose linear economy, instead establishing a circular system in which materials are kept in circulation through ‘closed’ production and consumption loops (Hobson, 2016; Mylan et al, 2016). While much of the circular economy research focuses on production and recycling processes, typically geared towards the electronics, metal and waste management industries (Ghisellini et al, 2016; Merli et al, 2018), the role of consumers in making the circular economy possible is beginning to be acknowledged (Hobson et al, 2021). 3. Source: Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing (#AVNZLE), Christian Fuentes, Réka Tölg, p. 13 Context: #S6NTVJ Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing #NBA5ZR Discussion and conclusion Matching excerpt #RQVYTZ: These findings contribute to sociologically oriented, circular consumption research in several ways. First, we show that the notion of care needs to be taken into account when trying to understand and enable circular consumption. While conceptual work on circular consumption has highlighted the potential relevance of care for circularity (Hobson et al, 2021; Greene et al, 2024), this topic has received little focused empirical attention. We address this paucity, showing that the performance of circular consumption not only involves specific socio-material arrangements, know-how, time and consumer labour but is also enabled and shaped by the enactment of care. Care awareness, responsibility-taking, and access and mobilisation of care resources were all crucial to the performance of circular clothing consumption. 4. Source: Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review (#PSBVW7), Casper Boks, Ida Nilstad Pettersen, Juana Camacho-Otero, p. 0 Context: #HHKK3Q Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review #RRR7Y9 1. Introduction Matching excerpt #5QVW6D: A circular economy (CE) aims at decoupling value creation from waste generation and resource use [1] by radically transforming production and consumption systems [2]. Most of the literature on the circular economy seems to focus on the production side, exploring circular business models [3], strategies to develop circular value propositions [4], and the benefits of such models [5]. Less attention seems to have been paid to how consumption and consumers would affect or be affected by the circular economy [2]. As suggested by Hobson et al. [6] the circular economy might translate into significant changes in people’s everyday lives, but there seems to be little understanding of such alterations in the scientific literature, and the policies promoting the circular economy [7]. Among such changes are the 5. Source: The Assembling of Circular Consumption: A sociomaterial practice approach (#Y3CFPX), Christian Fuentes, Elina Närvänen, Nina Mesiranta, p. 0 Context: #SP7ZUD Introduction Matching excerpt #ZUYWH3: Consumption plays a pivotal role in the transition to a circular economy (CE). The ways in which we, as consumers, buy and use products and services, how we take care of these through maintenance and repair, and how we get rid of and circulate things no longer needed or wanted are crucial for such a change towards a CE (Hobson et al., 2021; Sijtsma et al., 2020). Approximate matches 1. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #9GJAHS LIST OF SOURCES Score: 0.675 Related paragraph #TJVD8Y: Hobson, K., Holmes, H., Welch, D., Wheeler, K. and Wieser, H. (2021) ‘Consumption work in the circular economy: a research agenda’, Journal of Cleaner Production, 321, 128969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128969 2. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#4V8VH7), Ieva Lange Context: #ZF9EYF Introduction Score: 0.646 Related paragraph #BTDD45: Hobson et al. (2021) argue that research into circular economy consumption work must “move beyond the domestic sphere and space of the household” to examine consumption-based practices in other spaces, including Repair Cafés and community-based circular economy models, whether or not these are explicitly labelled as such. Brīvbode is such a space: a semi-public site where the ordinarily private labour of divestment and acquisition becomes visible and socially acknowledged, and where volunteer labour — sorting, curating, maintaining quality standards, and managing social dynamics — sustains the infrastructure through which things continue to circulate. 3. Source: Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia (#FYG32U), Ieva Lange Context: #BA7Z5L LIST OF SOURCES Score: 0.675 Related paragraph #DNUZ6F: Hobson, K., Holmes, H., Welch, D., Wheeler, K. and Wieser, H. (2021) ‘Consumption work in the circular economy: a research agenda’, Journal of Cleaner Production, 321, 128969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128969 4. Source: Material culture and the circular economy (#R69WZQ), Elizabeth Shove, Jenny Rinkinen, p. 0 Context: #J8TDC3 Material culture and the circular economy #CNF67G 1. Introduction Score: 0.648 Related excerpt #RHNFFH: A “circular economy” would turn goods that are at the end of their service life into resources for others, closing loops in industrial ecosystems and minimizing waste... It would change economic logic because it replaces production with sufficiency: reuse what you can, recycle what cannot be used, repair what is broken, remanufacture what cannot be repaired. (Stahel, 2016: 435) 5. Source: Reuse practices and household consumption work (#V9QTJP), David M. Evans, Peter Jackson, Rorie Beswick-Parsons, p. 2 Context: #YDJM7S Prácticas de reutilización y trabajo de consumo doméstico #UTZZ6F Introduction Score: 0.652 Related excerpt #6U9397: With a growing emphasis on the 'Circular Economy' in debates on consumption, sustainability and everyday life, systems of reuse are increasingly attracting attention (for example (EMF, 2019), (Greenpeace, 2020)) in transforming 'production-consumption systems towards enhanced material circularity' (Greene et al., 2024, p. 1). For example, the UK Plastics Pact emphasizes the need for a series of technical and design-based solutions in 'eliminating problematic plastics' and 'creating a circular economy for plastics' (WRAP, n.d.). At the same time, there is a strong emphasis on 'hard hitting campaigns' that encourage citizens to 'recycle more of the right things' (WRAP, n.d.) and a widespread sense that consumers must 'do their bit' by, for example, switching from single-use plastics to reusable packaging. 1 Within social science work, the role of 'consumer-users' and the labour involved in achieving a more sustainable circular economy has been identified as a critical, but often overlooked, component of citizen participation (Greene et al., 2024; Hobson, 2020; Hobson et al., 2021). Hobson's work suggests that any successful transition towards a circular economy requires a shift beyond prevailing individualistic perspectives on consumer behaviour that have dominated policy approaches against the backdrop of technocratic changes (cf. Shove, 2010). This paper contributes to these debates, focusing on the dynamics of existing household consumption practices to better understand how these might enable or inhibit the development of systems of reuse. ### 7. Assistant Quick verdict: **Mesiranta et al. 2025 and Tölg & Fuentes 2025 fit perfectly. Hobson et al. 2021 is the odd one out** and I'd drop it from this particular citation cluster. **Why the first two work:** - Mesiranta et al. 2025 (#BQ2W57) explicitly draws on "posthuman feminist theorising of care" and Tronto-style ethics of care, conceptualising circular consumption practices as matters of care (#BWGPV6, #UDVY6T). Direct hit on "feminist tradition + recent applications to circular consumption." - Tölg & Fuentes 2025 (#AVNZLE) explicitly "draws on… feminist scholarship on care (Fisher and Tronto, 1990; Tronto, 1993)" applied to circular clothing consumption (#W2LSKS), and even makes the point about gendered, often-unrecognised care labour falling on women (#8G8RM8) — which is precisely your "without recognising it as work at all" beat. **Why Hobson et al. 2021 is a stretch here:** Hobson et al. 2021 is the *consumption work* research agenda paper — you already lean on it elsewhere for exactly that (#BTDD45). It is *not* itself a feminist-care-tradition piece; it merely flags ethics of care as a worthwhile future direction (which is why Mesiranta et al. and Tölg & Fuentes both cite it as a "call" — see #UDVY6T, #RQVYTZ). Slotting it into the "feminist tradition" sentence overclaims what the paper does, and risks double-counting it across both registers of your two-register framing in #EF5DET. Notably, your **conclusion paragraph #5YXGE6 already drops Hobson et al. from the parallel formulation** and keeps only Mesiranta et al. and Tölg & Fuentes — that version is the more defensible one. I'd align #EF5DET with #5YXGE6 and remove Hobson et al. from this citation. Hobson et al. is doing its real work on the consumption-work side of the sentence pair anyway.