Living well with less: Enacting sufficiency-oriented consumption practices in a high-consumption society

In my PhD research I will explore how sufficiency, as a means and an end, can facilitate a transition to more sustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies. Using a practice theoretical approach I study how Swedish households enact sufficiency oriented consumption practices in the areas of food, housing and mobility within their socio-material context and in relation to the spatiotemporal organization of society and everyday life. Through this I aim to explore under what conditions sufficiency-oriented consumption practices become integrated into everyday habits and routines and what the barriers are for their further adoption and spread.