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Food prosumption technologies: A symbiotic lens for a degrowth transition

Handan, V., Ulusoy, E., Tillotson, J. , Hong, S., Ekici, A. & Mimoun, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-5173-312X (2023). Food prosumption technologies: A symbiotic lens for a degrowth transition. Marketing Theory, 24(2), pp. 289-309. doi: 10.1177/14705931231199962

Abstract

Prosumption is gaining momentum among the critical accounts of sustainable consumption that have thus far enriched the marketing discourse. Attention to prosumption is increasing whilst the degrowth movement is emerging to tackle the contradictions inherent in growthdriven, technology-fueled, and capitalist modes of sustainable production and consumption. In response to dominant critical voices that portray technology as counter to degrowth living, we propose an alternative symbiotic lens with which to reconsider the relations between technology, prosumption, and degrowth living, and assess how a degrowth transition in the context of food can be carried out at the intersection of human-nature-technology. We contribute to the critical debates on prosumption in marketing by analyzing the potentials and limits of technology-enabled food prosumption for a degrowth transition through the degrowth principles of conviviality and appropriateness. Finally, we consider the sociopolitical challenges involved in mobilizing such technologies to achieve symbiosis and propose a future research agenda.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: Copyright © 2023, the authors.
Publisher Keywords: degrowth, prosumption, sustainability, technology, symbiosis
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
T Technology > T Technology (General)
Departments: Bayes Business School > Management
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