Book
Wilhite, H. 2008. Consumption and the Transfomation of Everday Life: A View from South India. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Compendium
Campbell, C. 1995. Chapter 3 “The Sociology of consumption” pp 96 - 126 in Daniel Miller (red): Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of new studies. London: Routledge.
Fine, B. and E. Leopold. 1993. Chapter 3 and 4 ‘Disarray in the Theory of consumer Behaviour’, pp39-45, and Economic and Consumer Behaviour, pp 46-54, in The World of Consumption. London: Routledge.
Layard, R. 2005. Chapter 4 ‘If you are so rich, why aren’t you happy? pp 41-53. In Layard, R. Happiness, lessons from a new science. London: Penguin books.
Miller, D. 1995. Chapter 1 ‘Consumption As the Vanguard of History’ pp 1- 57. In D. Miller (Ed.), Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies. London: Routledge.
Princen, Thomas, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca. 2002: Chapter 1 “Confronting Consumption” pp 1-20 in Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca (red): Confronting Consumption. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Rojek, Chris. 2004. “The Consumerist syndrome in Contemporary Socieity. An interview with Zygmunt Bauman” in Journal of Consumer Culture 4(3): 291 – 312
Schor, J.B. 1998. Chapter 6 ‘Learning Diderot’s lesson: Stopping the upward creep of desire’ pp 143-167. In Schor J.B. The overspent American. New York: HarperCollins
Shove, E., L. Lutzenhiser, S. Guy, B. Hackett, H. Wilhite: 1998. Chapter 5 “Energy and social systems” pp 291 - 325 in Steve Rayner and Elizabeth L. Malone (eds): Human Choice and Climate Change. Ohio: Battelle Press. 1998.
Verbeek, P. 2006. Materializing morality: Design ethics and technology mediation. Science, Technology & Human Values 31(3): 361 – 380.
Wilhite, H. and L. Lutzenhiser: "Social Loading and Sustainable Consumption", in Eric J. Arnould og Linda M. Scott (red): Advances in Consumer Research, vol 26. Montreal: Association for consumer research. 1999, pp.281-287.
Online
The online articles are accessible online to UiO students, but you need to use a computer which is on the UiO network. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here. The online articles will also be available electronically on Fronter shortly before the commencement of the course.
Carrier, J. and D. Miller.1999. Chapter 2, ‘From Private Virture to Public Vice’, pp24 - 47. In H. Moore (Ed.), Anthropological Theory of Today. Cambridge and Oxford: Polity Press.
Harriss, Robert and Shui, Bin 2010. Consumption, Not CO2 Emissions: Reframing Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainability, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 52: 6, 8 — 15
Standal, K. (2010): "Lighting the Path Towards Gender Equality: Training Women as Solar Engineers in Afghanistan", Gender & Energy 2/2010, s. 5-7, 3 sider Fulltekst.
Warde, A. 2005. "Consumption and theories of practice". Journal of Consumer Culture 5:131-153.
Winther, T. (2007): "Rising electricity consumption: Driving forces and consequences. The case of rural Zanzibar", Proceedings from ECEEE Conference 2007, Panel 9 “Dynamics of consumption”, Nice, France, June 2007.
Other sources
Monica Guillen-Royo in Bjørkdahl, K and K. Nielsen (2012): "Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies" (Oslo: Unipub)., pp. 99-118
Wilhite, H. 2013. "Energy consumption as cultural practice: Implications for the theory and policy of sustainable energy use" in S. Strauss, S. Rupp and T. Love (Eds), Cultures of Energy. San Francisco: Left Coast Press.