Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Published in:
Just Enough: An Introduction Read chapter Read first chapter

2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. ‘Fashion Acolytes or Environmental Saviours? When Will Young People Have Had “Enough”?’

Author : Rebecca Collins

Published in: Just Enough

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

In the global north, high rates of material consumption show few signs of abating, despite oft-repeated warnings of dire social and environmental consequences. Environmental educators have identified young people as a potentially effective group of change agents, capable of driving a transformative shift in how we consume. Yet this picture of the young environmental ‘saviour’ is at odds with many Western young people’s thirst for the ‘latest’ fashions and trends. This chapter explores how young people themselves make sense of this apparent contradiction. Exploring under-researched questions around young people’s conceptualisations of, and affective and embodied responses to, the notion of ‘enough’, it highlights the cultural and contextual factors which could prove decisive in positioning the notion of ‘enough’ centrally in a sustainability-compatible youth material culture.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
previous chapter ‘These Are the Cases Who Call Themselves “Moderate Drinkers,” Because They Are Never Seen Embracing a Lamp-Post’: The Problem of Moderate Drinking in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
next chapter What Would a Sufficiency Economy Look like?
Footnotes
1
The fact that Snapchat was not one of these proved to be a major point of frustration.
 
2
Popular examples include volunteer-led repair workshops facilitated by organisations such as Restart and the Repair Café network, as well as websites such as iFixit.com.
 
3
An abbreviation of ‘magazine’.
 
Literature
Abrams, M. (1959). The Teenage Consumer. London: London Press Exchange.
Autio, M., & Heinonen, V. (2004). To Consume or Not to Consume? Young People’s Environmentalism in the Affluent Finnish Society. Young, 12(2), 137–153.CrossRef
Ballantyne, R., Connell, S., & Fien, J. (2006). Students as Catalysts of Environmental Change: A Framework for Researching Intergenerational Influence Through Environmental Education. Environmental Education Research, 12(3), 413–427.CrossRef
Belk, R., Ger, S., & Askegaard, S. (2003). The Fire of Desire: A Multi-sited Inquiry into Consumer Passion. Journal of Consumer Research, 30(3), 326–351.CrossRef
Bourdieu, P. (1986). The Forms of Capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education (pp. 241–258). Greenwood: New York.
Cleland Woods, H., & Scott, H. (2015). #sleepyteens—Is Social Media Use Related to Sleep Quality, Self-esteem, Anxiety and Depression in Adolescence? Paper Presented at the British Psychological Society Development Section and Social Section Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, 9–11 September.
Collins, R., & Hitchings, R. (2012). A Tale of Two Teens: Disciplinary Boundaries and Geographical Opportunities in Youth Consumption and Sustainability Research. Area, 44(2), 193–199.CrossRef
Croghan, R., Griffin, C., Hunter, J., & Phoenix, A. (2006). Style Failure: Consumption, Identity and Social Exclusion. Journal of Youth Studies, 9(4), 463–478.CrossRef
Douglas, M., & Isherwood, B. (1979). The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption. Oxford: Routledge.
Fröhlich, G., Sellman, D., & Bogner, F. X. (2013). The Influence of Situational Emotions on the Intention for Sustainable Consumer Behaviour in a Student-Centred Intervention. Environmental Education Research, 19(6), 747–764.CrossRef
Gill, A., & Lopes, A. M. (2011). On Wearing: A Critical Framework for Valuing Design’s Already Made. Design and Culture, 3(3), 307–327.CrossRef
Isaksen, K. J., & Roper, S. (2012). The Commodification of Self-esteem: Branding and British Teenagers. Psychology and Marketing, 29(3), 117–135.CrossRef
Jackson, T., Jager, W., & Stagl, S. (n.d.). Beyond Insatiability: Needs Theory, Consumption and Sustainability (Working Paper Series No. 2004/2). Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey.
Jeffries, L. (2011). The Revolution Will Be Soooo Cute: YouTube “Hauls” and the Voice of Young Female Consumers. Studies in Popular Culture, 33(2), 59–75.
Larsson, B., Andersson, M., & Osbeck, C. (2010). Bringing Environmentalism Home: Children’s Influence on Family Consumption in the Nordic Countries and Beyond. Childhood, 17(1), 129–147.CrossRef
Livingstone, S. (2002). Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment. London: Sage.
Livingstone, S. (2011). Internet, Children and Youth. In M. Consalvo & C. Ess (Eds.), The Handbook of Internet Studies (pp. 348–368). Oxford: Blackwell.CrossRef
Marion, G., & Nairn, A. (2011). “We Make the Shoes, You Make the Story” Teenage Girls’ Experiences of Fashion: Bricolage, Tactics and Narrative Identity. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 14(1), 29–56.CrossRef
McAfee, A., Dessain, V., & Sjoeman, A. (2004). Zara: IT for Fast Fashion. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing.
McGrail, S. (2011). Environmentalism in Transition? Emerging Perspectives, Issues and Futures Practices in Contemporary Environmentalism. Journal of Futures Studies, 15(3), 117–144.
Miles, S. (2000). Youth Lifestyles in a Changing World. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Phoenix, A. (2005). Young People and Consumption: Commonalities and Differences in the Construction of Identities. In B. Tufte, J. Rasmussen, & L. B. Christensen (Eds.), Frontrunners or Copycats? (pp. 78–97). Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.
Shove, E., Pantzar, M., & Watson, M. (2012). The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How It Changes. London: Sage.CrossRef
Spencer, A. (2005). DIY: The Rise of lo-fi Culture. London: Marion Boyars Publishers.
Sweeting, H., Hunt, K., & Bhaskar, A. (2012). Consumerism and Well-being in Early Adolescence. Journal of Youth Studies, 15(6), 802–820.CrossRef
Veblen, T. (1915 [1899]). The Theory of the Leisure Class. London and New York: Macmillan.
Metadata
Title
‘Fashion Acolytes or Environmental Saviours? When Will Young People Have Had “Enough”?’
Author
Rebecca Collins
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Just Enough

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-56209-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-56210-4

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56210-4_7