Professor Dale Southerton

Latest publications

• Southerton, D & Welch, D, 2019, ‘After Paris: transitions for sustainable consumption’. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, vol 15., pp. 31-44
• Mylan, J & Southerton, D, 2017, ‘Following the action: An approach for studying the coordination of practice’.
• Southerton, D & Evans, D, 2017, ‘Consumption policies within different theoretical frameworks’. in: Routledge Handbook on Consumption. Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 204-214
• Mylan, J & Southerton, D, 2017, ‘The Social Ordering of an Everyday Practice: The Case of Laundry’. Sociology.
• Dasgupta, P, Southerton, D, Ulph, A & Ulph, D, 2016, ‘Consumer Behaviour with Environmental and Social Externalities: Implications for Analysis and Policy’. Environmental and Resource Economics, vol 65., pp. 191-226
• Monreal, AC, McMeekin, A & Southerton, D, 2016, ‘Beyond acquisition: Exploring energy consumption through the appreciation and appropriation of domestic lighting in the UK’. Sustainable Production and Consumption, vol 7., pp. 37-48
• Southerton, D & Mylan, J, 2016, ‘Are we too busy to be sustainable?’. Discover Society.
• Southerton, D & Welch, D, 2016, ‘New Directions in Sustainable Consumption’. Discover Society/Social Research Publications, United Kingdom
• Southerton, D & Welch, D, 2016, ‘Sustainable Consumption: New Directions’. Discover Society
• Geels, FW, McMeekin, A, Mylan, J & Southerton, D, 2015, ‘A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions’. Global Environmental Change, vol 34., pp. 1-12
• Southerton, D & Welch, D, 2015, ‘Rethinking the Role of Individuals’ Behaviours in Sustainable Consumption’. Natural Environment Research Council
• Southerton, D & Yates, L, 2015, ‘Exploring food waste through the lens of social practice theories: some reflections on eating as a compound practice’. in: Karin M Ekstrom (eds) Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption. Routledge, London, pp. 133-149
• Southerton, D & Ulph, A, 2014, ‘Sustainable Consumption: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives in Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta’. Oxford University Press
• Southerton, D, 2013, ‘Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices’. Time & Society, vol 22., pp. 335-355
• Panzone, LA, Wossink, A & Southerton, D, 2013, ‘The design of an environmental index of sustainable food consumption: A pilot study using supermarket data’. Ecological Economics, vol 94., pp. 44-55
• McMeekin, A & Southerton, D, 2012, ‘Sustainability transitions and final consumption: Practices and socio-technical systems’. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, vol 24., pp. 345-361
• Southerton, D, Olsen, W, Warde, A & Cheng, SL, 2012, ‘Practices and trajectories: A comparative analysis of reading in France, Norway, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA’. Journal of Consumer Culture, vol 12., pp. 237-262
• Warde, A & Southerton, D, 2012, ‘The Habits of Consumption’. Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies
• Southerton, D & Warde, A, 2012, ‘Social Sciences and Sustainability’. in: The Habits of Consumption., pp. 1-25
• Evans, D, McMeekin, A & Southerton, D, 2012, ‘Sustainable Consumption, behaviour change policies, and theories of practice’. COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Southerton, D, Mendez, CD & Warde, A, 2012, ‘Behavioural Change and the Temporal Ordering of Eating Practices: A UK–Spain Comparison’. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, vol 19., pp. 19-36
• Southerton, D, 2012, ‘Consumption’. British Sociological Association Online, Sage..
• Southerton, D, 2011, ‘Running Out of Time’. in: Sociology of Personal Life. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., London
• Southerton, D, 2011, ‘Consumer Culture and Personal Life’. in: Sociology of Personal Life. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., London
• Southerton, D, 2011, ‘Convenience’. in: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. SAGE Publications Ltd, Thousand Oaks, Ca, pp. 355-258
• Southerton, D, 2011, ‘Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture’. SAGE Publications Inc.
• Southerton, D, McMeekin, A & Evans, D, 2011, ‘International review of behaviour change initiatives’.
• Southerton, D, 2010, ‘Sustainable food consumption: the temporalities of eating practices’.
• Southerton, D, 2010, ‘Bad habits die hard or do they?’.
• Southerton, D, 2010, ‘Re-ordering temporal rhythms: coordinating daily practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000’.
• Southerton, D, 2010, ‘Habits and everyday life: a practice-based approach to food consumption’.
• Southerton, D & Gronow, J, 2009, ‘Consumption and Leisure in Europe’. in: Stefen Immerfell (eds) Handbook of European Societies: Social Transformations in the 21st Century. Springer, London
• Munasinghe, M, Dasgupta, P, Southerton, D, McMeekin, A & Bows, A, 2009, ‘Consumers, business and climate change: Copenhagen 2009’.
• Southerton, D, 2009, ‘Temporal rhythms: comparing daily lives of 1937 with those of 2000 in the UK’. in: Rick Wilk (eds) Time, Consumption and Everyday Life. Berg Publishers, Oxford, pp. 49-63
• Southerton, D, 2009, ‘Communities of Consumption: Place, Geographical Mobility and Identification’. VDM Verlag
• Southerton, D, 2009, ‘Changing Times: quantitative analyses of time use’. in: Doing Social Science. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., London, pp. 59-79
• Southerton, D, 2008, ‘'Exploring the changing temporalities of everyday life: multiple methods of attack’.
• Southerton, D, 2008, ‘Co-ordinating time: quality time, togetherness and changing patterns of eating in the UK’.
• Southerton, D, 2008, ‘Re-thinking time and consumption: towards a conceptual framework and four theoretical approaches for examining the temporalities of daily life’.
• Southerton, D, 2008, ‘Exploring the changing temporalities of everyday life: multiple methods of attack’.
• Warde, A, Cheng, SL, Olsen, W & Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Changes in the practice of eating: A comparative analysis of time-use’. Acta Sociologica, vol 50., pp. 363-385
• Cheng, SL, Olsen, W, Southerton, D & Warde, A, 2007, ‘The changing practice of eating: Evidence from UK time diaries, 1975 and 20001’. British Journal of Sociology, vol 58., pp. 39-61
• Hand, M, Shove, E & Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Home extensions in the United Kingdom: Space, time, and practice’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol 25., pp. 668-681
• Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Time Pressure, Technology and Gender: the conditioning of temporal experiences in the UK’. Equal Opportunities International., pp. 113
• McMeekin, A & Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Innovation and Final Consumption: social practices, instituted modes of provision and intermediation’. Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition
• Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Re-ordering temporal rhythms: co-ordinating daily practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000’.
• Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Paterson, Consumption and Everyday Life’. Journal of Consumer Culture, vol 7., pp. 134-136
• Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Key Findings - Cultures of Consumption: a comparative analysis’.
• Southerton, D, Warde, A, Cheng, S-L & Olsen, W, 2007, ‘Trajectories of time spent reading as a primary activity: a comparison of the Netherlands, Norway, France, UK and USA since the 1970s’.
• Southerton, D, 2007, ‘Consuming Routines: rhythms, ruptures and the temporalities of consumption’.
• Southerton, D, 2007, ‘The changing temporal organization of life: reflections on comparisons of the 1937 Mass Observation Archive's 'Day in the Life of' diaries, and household interviews from 2000’.
• Southerton, D, 2006, ‘Analysing the temporal organization of daily life: Social constraints, practices and their allocation’. Sociology, vol 40., pp. 435-454
• Warde, A, Southerton, D & Olsen, W, 2006, ‘Diffusion of Cultures of Consumption: a comparative analysis’. Birkbeck College, University of London
• Southerton, D & Warde, A, 2006, ‘Constructing classifications of consumption: evidence from analysis of changing household expenditure categories in National surveys since the 1970s in Norway, the USA and UK’.
• Southerton, D, 2006, ‘The social ordering of Daily Practices: time, technology and daily life’.
• Gronow, J & Southerton, D, 2006, ‘Consumption and Leisure in European Societies: trends and trajectories’. in: host publication.
• Southerton, D, 2006, ‘Consumption and social practices rather than autonomous users’.
• Southerton, D, 2006, ‘Provisioning and Consumption’. in: George Ritzer (eds) Blackwells Encyclopedia of Sociology., pp. 748-750
• Southerton, D, 2006, ‘Cook, The Commodifiction of Childhood: the children's clothing industry and the rise of the child consumer’. British Journal of Sociology, vol 57., pp. 716-717
• Southerton, D, 2006, ‘'Coordinating daily practices: time, convenience devices and gender’.
• Hand, M, Shove, E & Southerton, D, 2005, ‘Explaining showering: A discussion of the material, conventional, and temporal dimensions of practice’. Sociological Research Online, vol 10.
• Southerton, D & Tomlinson, M, 2005, ‘'Pressed for time' - The differential impacts of a 'time squeeze'’. Sociological Review, vol 53., pp. 215-239
• Southerton, D, Shove, E & Warde, A, 2005, ‘Sustainable Domestic Technologies: changing practice, technology and convention’. ESRC
• Southerton, D, 2005, ‘Water and The Organisation of Everyday Life’.
• Southerton, D, 2005, ‘The Time Pressures of Consumption’.
• Southerton, D, 2005, ‘Home extensions: consumption, space and practice’.
• Warde, A & Southerton, D, 2005, ‘Time, money and change in the practice of eating’.
• Southerton, D, 2005, ‘The temporal organisation of daily life: social constraints, composite practices and allocation’. in: E Shove (eds) Manufacturing Leisure: Innovations in happiness, well-being and fun. National Consumer Research Centre
• Olsen, WK, Southerton, D & Warde, A, 2005, ‘Differences in Practices of Food Consumption: Analysis of the Diffusion of Consumer Culture using Multi-national Time-use Data 1975-2001’.
• Southerton, D, 2005, ‘Performing family and making homes: space, time and practices’.
• Southerton, D, 2005, ‘Consumption, domestic technologies and domestic spaces: some trends and ideas’.
• Martens, L, Southerton, D & Scott, S, 2004, ‘Bringing children (and parents) into the sociology of consumption: Towards a theoretical and empirical agenda’. Journal of Consumer Culture, vol 4., pp. 155-182
• Southerton, D, Warde, A & Hand, M, 2004, ‘The Limited Autonomy of the Consumer: Implications for Sustainable Consumption’. in: Bas van Vliet (eds) Sustainable Consumption: the implications of changing infrastructures of provision. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 32-48
• Southerton, D, 2004, ‘Cultural capital, social networks and social contexts: cultural orientations toward spare time practices in a New Town’. in: David Morgan (eds) Social Networks and Social Exclusion: Sociological and Policy Issues. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
• Southerton, D, Chappells, H & Van Vliet, B, 2004, ‘Sustainable consumption: the implications of changing infrastructures of provision’. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Nelson, S & Southerton, D, 2004, ‘I'm just a teenage dirt bag, baby!’. Report for Environmental Campaigns limited
• Southerton, D, 2003, ‘‘Squeezing Time’: Allocating Practices, Coordinating Networks and Scheduling Society’. Time & Society, vol 12., pp. 5-25
• Hand, M, Shove, E & Southerton, D, 2003, ‘Explaining Daily Showering: A discussion of policy and practice’. Economic and Social Research Council
• Southerton, D, 2002, ‘‘Us’ and ‘Them’: identification and class boundaries’’. Soundings: a Journal of Politics and Culture., pp. 133
• Southerton, D, 2002, ‘Boundaries of 'Us' and 'Them': Class, mobility and identification in a new town’. Sociology, vol 36., pp. 171-193
• Southerton, D, 2002, ‘Gottdeiner, New Forms of Consumption: consumers, culture and commodification’. Journal of Consumer Culture, vol 2., pp. 140-142
• Southerton, D & Outherton, D, 2002, ‘Gershuny, Changing times: work and leisure in postindustrial society’. Burna, vol 53., pp. 500-501
• Southerton, D, 2001, ‘Ordinary and Distinctive Kitchens; or a kitchen is a kitchen is a kitchen’. in: Alan Warde (eds) Ordinary Consumption. Routledge
• Southerton, D, 2001, ‘Consuming kitchens: Taste, context and identity formation’. Journal of Consumer Culture, vol 1., pp. 179-203
• Southerton, D, Shove, E, Warde, A & Deem, R, 2001, ‘The social worlds of caravaning: objects, scripts and practices’. Sociological Research Online, vol 6.
• Shove, E & Southerton, D, 2000, ‘Defrosting the Freezer: from novelty to convenience. A story of normalization’. Journal of Material Culture, vol 5., pp. 301
• Southerton, D, 1997, ‘Slater, Consumer Culture and Modernity’. Unknown Journal, vol 45., pp. 532-534
• Southerton, D, 1995, ‘Pierre Bourdieu: Habitus, Field and the Home’.