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Repair, Do-It-Yourself and Circular Economy

Alternative Practices for Sustainable Consumption

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Editors:
  1. Michael Jonas

    1. European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

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  2. Sebastian Nessel

    1. Institute for Sociology and Social Research, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Nina Tröger

    1. Chamber of Labour, Vienna, Austria

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  • Repair & Do-It-Yourself
  • Activities Phenomena of repair and do-it-yourself
  • Interactions, possibilities and limits of circular economy

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Repair, Do-It-Yourself, Use for a Longer Period of Time

    • Michael Jonas, Sebastian Nessel, Nina Tröger
    Pages 1-21

  3. How Much Consumption Is Still In Prosumption?

    • Kai-Uwe Hellmann
    Pages 23-37

  4. Do-It-Yourself and the Order of Economy and Society

    • Reinhild Kreis
    Pages 39-49

  5. About the Way We Deal with Things

    • Thomas Vogel
    Pages 51-70

  6. A Norwegian Circular Economy?

    • Thomas Edward Sutcliffe, Thomas Berker
    Pages 71-86

  7. “Doing Value”: How Practices of Assigning Meaning Influence the Usetime of Devices

    • Tamina Hipp, Melanie Jaeger-Erben
    Pages 87-109

  8. Incentives, Guarantees, Prohibitions? Consumer Policy Measures to Promote Sustainable Products and Their Support by Consumers

    • Gerhard Paulinger, Nina Tröger
    Pages 111-132

  9. Is Sustainable Already “Normal”? Sustainability as a Consumption Compass and Self-Moralisation in Dealing with Consumer Goods

    • Franzisca Weder, Renate Hübner, Denise Voci
    Pages 133-153

  10. Unsettled DIY Urbanism

    • Simeon Hassemer
    Pages 155-173

  11. Repair and Do-It-Yourself Urbanism: Good Practice in London and Berlin

    • Markus Piringer, Elmar Schwarzlmüller
    Pages 175-194

  12. Potentials of Alternative Consumption Models for Sustainable Development

    • Anna Rosa Vollmann, Daniela Zanini-Freitag, Josef Hackl
    Pages 195-212
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About this book

Repair & Do-It-Yourself activities on the one hand and discussions about the circular economy on the other hand are currently regarded as promising examples of how current modes of consumption and production can be reorganized and redesigned in the sense of a sustainable society. This volume discusses the relevance, the interactions as well as the possibilities and limits of the aforementioned phenomena of repairing, do-it-yourself and longer use on the one hand and the circular economy on the other, from both a scientific and a practical perspective.


Editors and Affiliations

  • European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

    Michael Jonas

  • Institute for Sociology and Social Research, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Sebastian Nessel

  • Chamber of Labour, Vienna, Austria

    Nina Tröger

About the editors

PD Dr. Michael Jonas is a private lecturer in sociology at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder and a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna.

Dr. Sebastian Nessel is a post doc in the research department of Economic Sociology at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.

Mag.a Nina Tröger is a consumer researcher at the Vienna Chamber of Labour. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Repair, Do-It-Yourself and Circular Economy

  • Book Subtitle: Alternative Practices for Sustainable Consumption

  • Editors: Michael Jonas, Sebastian Nessel, Nina Tröger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40150-4

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-40149-8Published: 14 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-40150-4Published: 13 June 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Consumer Behavior

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