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Mediating Sustainability in the Consumer Society book cover

1st Edition

Mediating Sustainability in the Consumer Society

Edited By Astrid Skjerven, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg, Liv Merete Nielsen, Dagny Stuedahl Copyright 2025
254 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, an effective tool for political authorities and business enterprises to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services. In this era of ecological and societal crises fuelled by increasing consumption, sustainability has become a key buzzword and target to attain. Governments around the world... Read more

Introduction

Astrid Skjerven, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg, Liv Merete Nielsen, and Dagny Stuedahl

Part 1: Ethics

1. Sustainability and its discontents: recovering the sources of value

Arne Johan Vetlesen

2. Sustainability discourses and the question of democracy

Cecilie Sachs Olsen

3. Exploring Norway's audiovisual industry: a study on communicated engagement in sustainable practices

Camille Z. Thisell

Part 2: Consumption

4. Who can stop the greenwashing

Ingunn Grimstad Klepp and Ingrid Haugsrud

5. Future of sustainable fashion communications: from marketing messages to the mediation of mutable meanings

Rachel Matthews and Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

Part 3: Communication

6. Creating sustainability by mythmaking: IKEA’s advertising campaigns "The Trash Collection" and "The Life Collection"

Astrid Skjerven

7. Cultivating responsibility through Instagram: fashion, revolution and narrative

Paige Street

8. Imagination and agency: on the role of fiction in ecological discourses

Dörte Linke

Part 4: Literacy

9. Redefining digital literacy for sustainable mediation

Dagny Stuedahl

10. Communicating sustainable uses of plastics in a museum setting: the case of the Museum of Design in Plastics

Louise Dennis

11. Indigenous approaches to mediation of the climate and nature emergency: a conversation with Vanessa Andreotti

Lisbeth Løvbak Berg

Biography

Astrid Skjerven is Professor Emerita of Design Theory at the Department of Product Design, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway.

Lisbeth Løvbak Berg is a researcher in the Sustainable Textile and Food Consumption Research Group at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway.

Liv Merete Nielsen is Professor Emerita of Design Education at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway.

Dagny Stuedahl is Professor of Media Design in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway, and Henrik-Steffens Professor at Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (2022–2025).

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