Kristina Diprose

Biographic Data

ID110463
NAMEKristina Diprose
GIVEN NAMESKristina
FAMILY NAMEDiprose
SIGNATUREDIPROSE K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sheffield
ORCID0000-0001-5889-5634
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS72
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Rethinking consumer convenience as a barrier to reusable packaging systems

    Open AccessJack Pickering, Rorie Beswick-Parsons et al.ARTICLEConsumption and Society2026

    Reusable packaging systems have been recognised as a part of sustainability and circular economy transitions but they are widely considered to be inconvenient for the consumer. This article challenges the notion that reuse systems are necessarily inconvenient by drawing attention to reuse practices, differences between reusable packaging systems, and associated complexes of consumption practices. Theoretical insights from studies of convenience f…

  • Caring for the future: Climate change and intergenerational responsibility in China and the UK

    Open AccessKristina Diprose, Chen Liu et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2019Cited by: 9References: 29

  • Building common cause towards sustainable consumption: A cross-generational perspective

    Open AccessKristina Diprose, G Valentine et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2019Cited by: 3References: 76

    The notion of sustainable consumption has gained significant traction in recent decades, in parallel with unprecedented growth in global consumption and recognition of its catastrophic environmental impacts. In this context, there is a predominant generational narrative of frugality versus excess, with younger generations often negatively stereotyped as increasingly consumer-driven and environmentally destructive. We argue that it is important to…

  • Placing 'sustainability' in context: Narratives of sustainable consumption in Nanjing, China

    Chen Liu, G Valentine et al.ARTICLESocial & Cultural Geography2019Cited by: 12References: 40

    This article examines how ordinary people practice the notion of 'sustainable consumption' in relation to their everyday lives and experiences of the wider environment and how these understandings relate to public discourses of sustainability in contemporary China. The paper is based on an empirical analysis of 129 narrative interviews with local residents in urban Nanjing, collected as part of an interdisciplinary and international comparative r…

  • Corporations, Consumerism and Culpability: Sustainability in the British Press

    Kristina Diprose, Richard Fern et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2018

    Sustainability and sustainable development are prominent themes in international policy-making, corporate PR, news-media and academic scholarship. Its definitions are contested, however sustainability is associated with a three-pillar focus on economic development, environmental conservation and social justice, most recently espoused in the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. In spite of its common usage, there is little res…

  • A Chinese route to sustainability: Postsocialist transitions and the construction of ecological civilization

    Open AccessChen Liu, Lily Chen et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2018Cited by: 13References: 9

    This article explores the concept of sustainability in a postsocialist context through an analysis of official discourses relating to sustainability in more than 700 articles published in the Chinese‐language newspaper People's Daily in 2015. The Chinese conception of sustainability, which emerges as a top‐down model built upon traditional ideologies and Chinese socialist legacies, inclusive of economic growth, environmental sustainability, socia…

  • Rural–urban inequality and the practice of promoting sustainability in contemporary China

    Open AccessChen Liu, G Valentine et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal2018Cited by: 1References: 9

  • Urban climate change, livelihood vulnerability and narratives of generational responsibility in Jinja, Uganda

    Open AccessKatie Mcquaid, Robert M Vanderbeck et al.ARTICLEAfrica2018Cited by: 5References: 99

    There is an urgent need to understand lived experiences of climate change in the context of African cities, where even small climate shocks can have significant implications for the livelihoods of the urban poor. This article examines narratives of climate and livelihood changes within Jinja Municipality, Uganda, emphasizing how Jinja's residents make sense of climate change through their own narrative frames rather than through the lens of globa…

  • Intergenerational Community-Based Research and Creative Practice: Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Jinja, Uganda

    Open AccessKatie Mcquaid, Robert M Vanderbeck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intergenerational…2017Cited by: 4References: 42

    This article critically reflects on the methodological approach developed for a recent project based in Jinja, Uganda, that sought to generate new forms of environmental knowledge and action utilizing diverse forms of creative intergenerational practice embedded within a broader framework of community-based participatory research. This approach provided new opportunities for intergenerational dialogue in Jinja, generated increased civic environme…

  • Critical distance: Doing development education through international volunteering

    Open AccessKristina DiproseARTICLEArea2012Cited by: 25References: 33

    Development education is an under‐theorised aspect of international volunteering, yet it is implicit in the mission statements of many sending organisations when they promise a transformative experience. What does international volunteering offer, and can it make returned volunteers ‘think global’? This paper suggests a tentative definition of development education, outlining key pedagogical concepts that can be applied to analysis of internation…