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Leveraging COVID-19 Outbreak for Shaping a More Sustainable Consumer Behavior
Consumption has lately been under the microscope facing pressure from all stakeholders as principles of sustainability have gained more popularity. In this context, a new sustainable consumer model was born, referring to major shifts in buying and consumption habits. Nevertheless, these shifts were lagging as consumers resisted change in the comfort of old habits. This comfort was shaken up by the COVID-19 outbreak that forced us to rethink every aspect of our lives. Therefore, this crisis context seems the perfect opportunity to shift towards the sustainable consumer model. People’s openness towards embracing new consumption habits was evaluated in a quantitative study where data was collected in two different moments: May 2020 and December 2020. Major results of our research show that people’s lives were dominated in 2020 by uncertainty, especially when referring to their financial situation. Further on, consumers have already started to bring major shifts in their consumption habits because of this uncertainty. Among the most important shifts, there were more prudent purchase decisions, rising interest for discounted prices, increased likelihood of buying local and enhanced preference in buy fresh products instead of processed or semi-processed ones.
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Postnaturalist Monstrosity in Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland
This paper centers on reading the trans author Rivers Solomon’s 2021 novel Sorrowland through the lens of postnaturalism—particularly as it is figured in the monstrous—and thereby helping readers understand the crux of transphobia specifically and conservative politics more generally. In this two-part goal, the term transphobia illuminates both how conservative revanchism involves a static social order governed by an orthodoxy that trans people can never affirm even while trans identities threaten the legitimacy of this orthodoxy in revealing the ability of individuals to exceed social categories in a praxis of being.
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Bill McKibben’s Influence on U.S. Climate Change Discourse
This article examines the influence of radical flank actors in shifting field-level debates by increasing the legitimacy of preexisting but peripheral issues. Using network text analysis, we apply this conceptual model to the climate change debate in the United States and the efforts of Bill McKibben and 350.org to pressure major universities to “divest” their fossil fuel assets. What we find is that, as these new actors and issue entered the debate, liberal policy ideas (such as a carbon tax), which had previously been marginalized in the U.S. debate, gained increased attention and legitimacy while the divestment effort itself gained limited traction. This result expands theory on indirect pathways to institutional change through a discursive radical flank mechanism, and suggests that the actual influence of Bill McKibben on the U.S. climate debate goes beyond the precise number of schools that divest to include a shift in the social and political discourse.
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Climate Change and Overpopulation
Sea level rise, drought, famine, flooding, catastrophic weather events, and fire are going to lead to more mass migration and many more opportunities for increased levels of conflict and violence even greater than we have already seen. Naomi Klein, in her 2014 book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, speaks about attending a conference sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a meeting which she describes as: \"the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet...\" in which featured speakers described talk of climate change as \"a plot to steal American freedom,\" \"a stalking horse for National Socialism,\" and \"a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of green, communitarianism. All of those employed in the sectors of the economy which could be most harmed by \"going green,\" chiefly those industries which are dependent on the continued use of fossil fuels, can and will fight hard against economic policies or regulations designed to decrease fossil fuel consumption. The position taken here is similar to that taken by Naomi Klein and others, that as long as we adhere to the present capitalist economic system with its powerful multinational corporations, which are driven to increase, or at least maintain, their short and medium term profitability, it is going to be very difficult, if not impossible, to do the kinds of things we should be doing to slow the rate of increase of global warming and to deal effectively with the effects of climate change.
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