Everyday circularities: rethinking consumption in circular transformations

Greene, Mary and Hobson, Kersty ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-9081 2025. Everyday circularities: rethinking consumption in circular transformations. Consumption and Society 10.1332/27528499Y2025D000000052

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Abstract

This editorial article introduces the Special Issue (SI) ‘Everyday Circularities: Rethinking Consumption in Circular Transformations’. It begins by situating the contributions within the sociology of consumption and growing critiques of dominant Circular Economy frameworks, which have traditionally prioritised consumer acceptance and market-driven solutions. The SI challenges these assumptions by foregrounding the complex, embedded and uneven nature of circular transformations in everyday life. The discussion of the SI contributions is structured around five key cross-cutting themes: systems of practice and provision; affectivities and relationalities; materialities; spatialities; and inequalities. Each article is positioned within and across these themes, illustrating how circular participation is shaped by broader social-material, institutional and political-economic conditions. The editorial concludes by reflecting on the broader implications of these findings for advancing research, policy and practice on circular consumption transformations.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
ISSN:	2752-8499
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 March 2025
Date of Acceptance:	12 March 2025
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2025 11:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176839

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