期刊名称：The Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies
印刷版ISSN：1602-2297
出版年度：2014
卷号：13
期号：1
出版社：Roskilde Univ
摘要：The article on ‘Experience and Sustainable Consumption’ introduces an alternative understanding of consumption drawing on modern hedonism and experience-orientation of consumerism towards values and symbols providing meaningfulness and identity. The author touches on the emotional aspects of consumption and how ambivalences may be resolved by dream-like fantasies not involving any kind of actions apart from the feeling of bad conscience, expressed by irony and self-irony. The re-reading of existing studies reveals the inherent dilemmas in experience-based sustainable consumption. Drawing attention to the time consuming aspect of experience-based consumption and the inability of consumers to make sacrifices by renouncing to consume, the author questions the prospects for making consumption more sustainable, apart from handling the feeling of guilt by atoning to emotionally gratifying sustainable consumption. As such self-reflexion is linked to emotional control of consumption, although it may be linked to ritualized rational concerns for future generations. The author argues that understanding the emotional aspects of consumption may be a possible path to understand the discrepancy between values and actions, and the need for breaking individual inaction by calling for collective responsibility and action.
