Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking

@article{Holmes2021LockingdownIP,
  title={Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking},
  author={Tori Holmes and Carol Lord and Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs},
  journal={Journal of Consumer Culture},
  year={2021}
}
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world placed communities under ‘lockdown’. Various practices of consumption were uprooted from their instituted settings and re-rooted in homes. This unprecedented reorganisation of normality resulted in increased instances of domestic consumption as practices occurring in offices, gyms and eateries were forced into homes, demanding the acquisition of materials and altering expectations of what homes are for. This article contributes to… 
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