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List of Contributors
Daniel Berlin is PhD in political science, University of Gothenburg. His research concerns issues such as institutional trust, environmental politics, and natural resource management. He has published in International Review of Sociology, Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Politics and Planning and Marine Policy.
David Evans is Lecturer in sociology and a Sustainable Consumption Institute Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. His research explores how consumption relates to the dynamics of everyday practices and the means through which these might be governed. He is currently engaged in a study of sustainable food consumption and is Co-Investigator on the ESRC funded project ‘eco- innovation and consumer behaviour’. He is also finishing off a book based on his ethnographic research into household food waste.
Antti Gronow is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, and also an Erik Allardt Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala (autumn 2012). His PhD dissertation, entitled From Habits to Social Structures. Pragmatism and Contemporary Social Theory, was published by Peter Lang in 2011. Gronow’s main research areas are social theory, pragmatism, economic sociology and social network analysis. His previous publications have discussed, for example, practice theory (in Sociology, 2008) and institution theories (in Journal of Institutional Economics, 2008).
Erkki Kilpinen has pursued professional scholarship both in philosophy and in the social sciences, at the University of Helsinki and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala). He is currently Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki. His research interests are mostly theoretical, dealing with social and sociological theory and their history, the relation of sociology to other social sciences, and the relation of social sciences to other sciences. In the study of these topics he uses pragmatist philosophy, the general theory of semiotics, and the philosophy of cognitive science as organizing methodological principles.
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Omar Lizardo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, a fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications. His main research interests are in sociological theory, cultural sociology, organizations and microsociology. His work has appeared in such journals as American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, Social Forces and Poetics.
Andrew McMeekin is Professor of Innovation at Manchester Business School.
He is the Deputy Director of the ESRC, Defra and Scottish Government funded Sustainable Practices Research Group and also leads research themes on Innovation and Sustainability at the Sustainable Consumption Institute and the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. Research interests are eco- innovation; sustainable consumption; and the changing role of the State in sustainability transitions.
Michele Micheletti is Lars Hierta professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. She authored of Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action (Palgrave, 2nd edition 2010), guest co-edited the special issue ‘Shopping for Human Rights’ for the Journal of Consumer Policy (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2007), co-edited Creative Participation: Responsibility-Taking in the Political World (Paradigm 2010), and is finalizing a co-authored book together with Dietlind Stolle on political consumerism for Cambridge University Press. Presently she leads a research project on Sustainable Citizenship that explores the spatial, temporal and material relationships involved in citizenship practice. She has begun to conduct research on the role of popular culture in citizenship politics. Fore more information, please visit http://www.statsvet.su.se/micheletti
Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. She has recently completed an Economic and Social Research Council climate change leadership fellowship on “Transitions in Practice: Climate Change and Everyday Life”, and currently is part of the ESRC Sustainable Practices Research Group. As well as writing about changing conventions of comfort, cleanliness and convenience and what these mean for patterns of energy and water demand, Elizabeth has sought to persuade climate change policy makers to move beyond the limited vocabulary of attitude, behaviour and consumer choice and make better use of a wider range of social theory.
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Dale Southerton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, the Director of the ESRC Sustainable Practices Research Group and a Professorial Fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the sociology of consumption, sustainable consumption, time-use and everyday life. He is currently engaged in several research projects.
One explores changing habits of food purchase, another consumption patterns and time-use among single person households.
Dietlind Stolle is Associate Professor in Political Science at McGill University, Montréal, Canada. She conducts research and has published on voluntary associations, trust, institutional foundations of social capital, political mobilization, and new forms of political participation. Her work appeared for example in the journals British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, and Perspectives in Politics. She is the co-principal investigator of the Comparative Youth Survey (CYS) as well as associate director of the US Citizenship, Involvement and Democracy (CID) survey and currently serves as a co-PI for the Canadian Election Survey (CES).
John Thøgersen is Professor of Economic Psychology at Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences. His current research includes projects on social norms in the environmental field, promoting energy conservation in households, consumer acceptance of organic food products in China, Brazil and Europe, and intergenerational transfer of environmental concern. He has published extensively on consumption issues in international journals such as Journal of Economic Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Psychology
& Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, and Business Strategy and the Environment. John Thøgersen is editor of Journal of Consumer Policy, published by Springer. He is program director at Aarhus University for EURECA, a European Master of Consumer Affairs.
Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.He is also Professorial Fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute and is a member of the ESRC Sustainable Practices Research Group. Between autumn 2010 and summer 2012 Alan Warde was the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His current research is wide ranging, and covers the sociology of consumption, with particular emphasis on food, social stratification and economic sociology.
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Harold Wilhite is a social anthropologist and Research Director at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and Environment. Wilhite has engaged in research on energy conservation, international development and sustainable consumption in several parts of the world. His main research interests have been associated with theorising and promoting sustainable energy use, both in developed and developing countries. His publications have contributed to internationally recognized theoretical advances in conceptualizing the interaction between technology, behaviour and consumption. He has consulted to a number of international policy efforts on sustainable energy consumption and climate mitigation, including the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD) and the OECDs Environment Directorate.
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