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Power: the missing element in sustainable consumption and absolute reductions research and action

  • In this essay, we aim to demonstrate the value of a power lens on consumption and absolute reductions. Specifically, we illuminate what we perceive to be a troublesome pattern of neglect of questions of power in research and action on sustainable consumption and absolute reductions. In pursuit of our objectives, we delineate how many of the informal and implicit “theories of social change” of scholars and activists in sustainable consumption and sustainable development fail to address power in a sufficiently explicit, comprehensive and differentiated manner and how that failure translates into insufficient understandings of the drivers of consumption and the potential for and barriers to absolute reductions. Second, we develop the contours of a power lens on sustainable consumption. Third, we illustrate the value of such a power lens, with a particular focus on the case of meat consumption.
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Author:Doris Fuchs, Antonietta Di Giulio, Katharina Glaab, Sylvia Lorek, Michael Maniates, Thomas Princen, Inge Ropke
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106438
URL:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652615001109
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.02.006
Parent Title (English):Journal of Cleaner Production
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2019/05/20
Year of first Publication:2016
Provider of the Publication Server:FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences
Release Date:2019/05/20
Tag:absolute reduction; meat; power; social change; sustainable consumption
Volume:132
First Page:298
Last Page:307
Faculties:Oecotrophologie · Facility Management (OEF)
Publication list:Lorek, Sylvia
Licence (German):License LogoZweitveroeffentlichung