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Recent Posts
- How nice, do you have a rich husband?
- “Cost of living skyrocketing? Try moving in together. It’s not about romance. It’s about mathematics.” article in SydSvenskan’s Aktuella Frågor
- Article about tvättstugas in The Conversation
- Doing Less Happily Ever After
- Green Bullshit Jobs
- New Project: Investigating Doing Less in Everyday Life (IDLE)
- Slow Science and Work-Life Balance
- Unsustainably clean and smooth
- New research shows that consuming less makes us more happy- some NYE opinions in SydSvenskan
- Don’t let flying for work become normal again
- Why don’t we care that the ultra-rich are fucking up our climate?
- The girl gang that vanished
- Laconia – living alone consumption impact – Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions
- Music festivals can show the way to sustainability – debate article in Dagens Nyheter
- En halstvätthistoria av Annika Rullgård
- Hackademia
- Response to my research
- Varför duscha vi så ofta? Jag pratar renlighetsnormer med Lena Nordlund på Vetenskapsradion
- Respons på en artikel i svd
- The disappearing communal laundry room in Sweden: a symptom of individual comforts winning over sustainability?
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Christmas Turkey
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Tagged holiday photos, Istanbul, likya yolu, lycian way, Turkey
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Money
For the first time in my life I have a stable job. Which means for the first time in my life I have a stable income. Which also means, that for the very first time in my life, I have … Continue reading
Truth and reality
I do solemnly declare that I shall give the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I’ve never really thought much about what the truth is. But Liv told me there is no such thing. At face value … Continue reading
The sharing compulsion
Why blog? Why share random thoughts with random people on the internet? Is it ego? Some self important identity project? I hope not. The reflexive me wants this to be a selfless sharing compulsion aimed at contributing to our human super … Continue reading
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Just when I thought I was starting to get my head around some theories…
…Bourdieu makes sure it doesn’t go to my head… ‘the philosophical sense of distinction is another form of the visceral disgust at vulgarity which defines pure taste as an internalized social relationship, a social relationship made flesh; and a philosophically distinguished … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, Bourdieu, distinction, don't get a fat head, Friday, social theory
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Is objectivity tarnished by participant sensitivity?
Seeing the world how it ‘really is’ is one of the fundamental aims of any research. Physicists study how matter really exists, biologists how organisms really exist, and sociologists how societies really exist. Studying people and societies is uniquely challenging … Continue reading
Inventory of items on Kochi Beach
Kochi, formerly Cochin, was my first stop in India. I arrived late and woke to unexpected quiet. Preconceptions of bustling, burly India were subverted by a solar-panel corruption strike. Wandering the empty backstreets I ended up on a nearly deserted … Continue reading
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Open Table
Back in February Georgia and I were drinking wine on the verandah. We had both just arrived back in Melbourne, and were comparing travel stories and bank balances. She was starting to freelance as a designer and I was still … Continue reading
The dirt on clothes: why washing less is more sustainable
I wrote a piece for The Conversation recently, about my MPhil jeans research. It was really interesting to fit my 45,000 word thesis into 800 words (the editors are strict!). The article had a great response: over 300 shares … Continue reading
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Tagged cleanliness, jeans, Laundry, laundry aisle, Nobody was Dirty, public opinion, The Conversation, Washing, water
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