Groves, Christopher  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-1119, Henwood, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-5468, Shirani, Fiona, Butler, Catherine, Parkhill, Karen and Pidgeon, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8991-0398
2016.
Invested in unsustainability? On the psychosocial patterning of engagement in practices.
Environmental Values
25
(3)
, pp. 309-328.
10.3197/096327116X14598445991466
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Abstract
Understanding how and why practices may be transformed is vital for any transition towards socio-environmental sustainability. However, theorising and explaining the role of individual agency in practice change continues to present challenges. In this paper we propose that theories of practice can be usefully combined with a psychosocial framework to explain how agency is biographically patterned and how this ‘patterning’ is a product of attachment relationships and strategies for dealing with uncertainty. Biographical interview data from the project Energy Biographies is used to illustrate the ways in which this theoretical approach can enhance understanding of how potential for practice change may be opened up or obstructed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Psychology Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Additional Information: | Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0963-2719/ (accessed 03/02/2016) |
| Publisher: | White Horse Press |
| ISSN: | 0963-2719 |
| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council |
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| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 6 January 2015 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2024 08:15 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/68780 |
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