A new article in the special issue Disruption in Everyday Life: Changing Social Practices and Dynamics in Consumption in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy has just been published. The article was authored by Dr. Ulrikke Wethal, Dr. Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, Dr. Arve Hansen, Sejal Changede, and Dr. Gert Spaargaren. We present a shortContinue reading “Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office: Boundary traffic during COVID-19 lockdowns and the future of working from home”
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How do COVID-19 lockdown practices relate to sustainable well-being? Lessons from Oslo and Geneva
A new article has been published in special issue Disruption in Everyday Life: Changing Social Practices and Dynamics in Consumption in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. Authored by Orlane Moynat, Johannes Volden, and Marlyne Sahakian, the article addresses how the disruption of everyday practices affected how people experienced the good life duringContinue reading “How do COVID-19 lockdown practices relate to sustainable well-being? Lessons from Oslo and Geneva”
Consumption and shifting temporalities of daily life in times of disruption: undoing and reassembling household practices during the COVID-19 pandemic
The second article in the special issue “Disruptions in Everyday Life: Changing social practices & dynamics of consumption” in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy has been published. The article, authored by Dr. Mary Greene, Dr. Arve Hansen, Dr. Claire Hoolohan, Dr. Elisabeth Süßbauer and Dr. Lorenzo Domaneschi, dives into the temporal connections of our daily practicesContinue reading “Consumption and shifting temporalities of daily life in times of disruption: undoing and reassembling household practices during the COVID-19 pandemic”
Bounded experimentation in food practices: insights into the impacts of Covid-19 lockdown on food practices
We are delighted to announce the first paper in our special issue “Disruptions in Everyday Life: changing social practices & dynamics of consumption” in Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy has just been published. Below we share a summary of the paper written by the two lead authors on the paper dr. Claire Hoolohan & dr.Continue reading “Bounded experimentation in food practices: insights into the impacts of Covid-19 lockdown on food practices”
Various Members of the Team Present their Work!
In addition to the presentations at the European Sociological Association Conference in September, members of our international team have been involved in hosting seminars and talks on aspects of our project. On 8 December 2021, Dr. Arve Hansen of the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo led a virtual seminarContinue reading “Various Members of the Team Present their Work!”
‘COVID-19 & Consumption’ sessions at ESA 2021
Reflecting the significant societal disruption of the past 18 months, the theme of COVID-19 and consumption was well represented at the recent European Sociological Association conference. Our consortium members presented their work in papers exploring the impact of COVID-19 on everyday practices across themes of food, mobilities, time, space and wellbeing. The specific paper titlesContinue reading “‘COVID-19 & Consumption’ sessions at ESA 2021”
Partisan experiences of Covid-19 in the United States of America
Written by Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs and Manisha Anantharaman The Covid-19 crisis, like almost everything else in contemporary American life, is a partisan issue. With the fraught Presidential elections fresh in our minds, it should come as no surprise that how people responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns in their everyday lives differed significantly onContinue reading “Partisan experiences of Covid-19 in the United States of America”
Semi-confinement measures in Western Switzerland: a holiday at home for some?
Orlane Moynat, Margot Chauderna and Pr Marlyne Sahakian Many countries around the world imposed strict lock-down conditions for several weeks during the Spring of 2020, due to the worrying sanitary situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Swiss citizens were subject to semi-confinement measures, which gave people a certain flexibility in their movements despite closedContinue reading “Semi-confinement measures in Western Switzerland: a holiday at home for some?”
Food practices under Lockdown in France
Author: Fanny Devaux Shifting from physical food shopping to online food shopping, cleaning food products after coming back from the supermarket, and preparing home made meals: these are three food related practices that many French people experienced during the lockdown. While the confinement public policy did not directly target food habits, it did have manyContinue reading “Food practices under Lockdown in France”
How COVID-19 Changed Everyday Life in Germany – Insights from Interviews in Berlin and Munich
Elisabeth Süßbauer, Uta Böhm, Rabea-Lorina Dehning, Henrike Rau, Martina Schäfer After recognition of the coronavirus as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 12th, the German states closed all schools, nurseries and universities. There was a ban on all public gatherings of more than two people (“Kontaktbeschränkungen”) and playgrounds were locked. RestaurantsContinue reading “How COVID-19 Changed Everyday Life in Germany – Insights from Interviews in Berlin and Munich”
Everyday Life in a Pandemic 