Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices

Time & Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 335-355

  Southerton, Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; habits; practices; routines; sustainable consumption; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887362626     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: 14617463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X12464228     Document Type: Article

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