Hosted by the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Working Group on Social Change Beyond Consumerism.

This session we’ll hear from three speakers from the Everyday Life in a Pandemic Consortium, sharing their new papers which offer multinational perspectives on consumption practices during the pandemic.

Joining details: https://zoom.us/j/3720328133

Consumption and shifting temporalities of daily life in times of disruption

Dr Mary Greene (Project lead and coordinator). 

Mary is an Assistant Professor in the sociology of sustainable consumption at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University. Mary applies theories of social practice in analysis of consumption across diverse cultural contexts and is experienced in multiple methods and research approaches. This talk will introduce the Everyday Life in Pandemic consortium and present a paper examining the undoing and reassembling of household practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Relevant paper: Consumption and shifting temporalities of daily life in times of disruption (Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy)

COVID-19 and socio-materially bounded experimentation in food practices: insights from seven countries

Prof Dr Sigrid Wertheim-Heck 

Sigrid is professor of Food and Healthy Living at Aeres University of Applied Science and a research fellow at the Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University. She is a researcher in consumption sociology with a main area of interest in sustainable food and food security (access, safety, diversity and nutrition). This talk will explore commonalities across contexts in how lockdown measures have restricted the performance of previously taken-for-granted practices, and the implications for our thinking about how practices change.

Relevant paper: COVID-19 and socio-materially bounded experimentation in food practices: insights from seven countries (Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy)

Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office: Boundary traffic during Covid-19 lockdown and the future of working from home

Dr Arve Hansen 

Arve is a human geographer and researcher at Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo where he leads a research group on sustainable consumption and energy equity. With a particular interest in the intersection between social practices and systems of provision, much of his research has focused on East Asia (mainly Vietnam). Currently, he is researching food provision and practice in Norway and Vietnam, mainly focusing on the (de)meatification of diets. This paper examines the implications of working from home on household practices and dynamics.

Relevant paper: Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office:  Boundary traffic during Covid-19 lockdown and the future of working from home (Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy)