Toke Haunstrup Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1630736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toke Haunstrup Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toke Haunstrup |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5473-6369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Institutional material arrangements
Within theories of practice, there is a tradition for conceptualising how practices unfold within material arrangements. Furthermore, consumer studies informed by theories of practice include a growing body of work which focuses on how supplier and professional practices shape everyday practices which involve consumption. With this foundation in practice theory, the article combines existing understandings of stabilisation of practices into a sho…
Just like home? Temporal and moral coordination of everyday life in times of hybrid work
Hybrid work has gained renewed attention post-COVID-19, prompting shifts in how we practice work and use digital technologies to both integrate and separate work and home in time and space. While often presented as flexible and individualized, hybrid work is deeply embedded in daily routines in the home and in collective rhythms. This paper examines how hybrid worker communities in Denmark reconfigure these rhythms and coordinate activities acros…
Changing Spatialities of Homes in Post-Covid-19 Working-from-Home Practices
The conceptual separation of home and work, central to the cultural history of housing in most modern westernized countries, has been blurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has introduced working from home to many households. Using the lens of Lefebvre, this paper contributes to the ethnographic investigation of how households negotiate the ambiguity of time and space at home in post-lockdown working-from-home practices. The paper shows that (1)…
Provide or prevent? Exploring sufficiency imaginaries within Danish systems of provision
The concept of sufficiency, recognised in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, denotes a reduction in production and consumption in the Global North, aiming to limit energy demand and resource use while promoting wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. Although sufficiency-oriented policies and businesses exist, they are currently outliers, and the concept remains fluid among practitioners and researchers. Th…
Promoting practices of sufficiency
There is an urgent need to change everyday practices in less resource-intensive directions. However, present practices unfold within existing material infrastructures and social institutions established during times of fossil fuel abundance. While acknowledging that a transition to sufficiency will require material and institutional transformations, it is also evident that major changes in material arrangements can be highly resource demanding. T…
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
CHAPTER 11 Can Practice Theory Inspire Studies of ICTs in Everyday Life?
The gendering of energy household labour
Gender considerations, such as the division of household labour and the coordination of everyday household practices, are important for the energy transition of households. Household labour involves everyday practices (e.g. cooking, laundry and caring for others) and practices of energy household labour ( e.g . managing digital technologies and energy systems). Emerging smart energy technologies require energy flexibility and efficiency, thereby …
Pandemic Detours or New Sustainable Pathways? Post-pandemic Mobility Futures in Danish Cities
When mobility normality breaks down, new futures can emerge. This paper explores COVID-19 disruptions of everyday mobility in Danish cities and new emerging pathways toward less carbon-intensive mobility futures in the light of the mobile risk society and practice theory. It uses a stakeholder workshop with public transport providers as empirical outset to start conceptualizing new discussions that have emerged in the wake of COVID-19. Through fo…
The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions
Increasingly guided by the use of ICT, the flow of humans and materials, smart cities and autonomous mobility amalgamate into a game changer in urban planning. This paper critically explores the role of autonomous (driverless) vehicles in plans for urban futures. By looking into the urban plans of 10 European capitals, we investigate the anticipated promises and hazards of autonomous vehicles. Theoretically, the paper draws upon critical urban mo…
Sequence of practices in personal and societal rhythms - Showering as a case
This paper explores methodologically and theoretically how to understand variations in the temporal performances of showering as a practice-as-entity. Time-based data on domestic hot water consumption in 134 Danish households show distinctly different patterns, where some households exhibit highest consumption in the morning and others in the evening. This temporal pattern of showering is analysed based on an innovative combination of statistical…
Household Appliances and Electronics
Household appliances and electronics have massive environmental implications caused by the consumption of energy and scarce materials and the release of hazardous chemicals related to production, use, and disposal as well as social issues related to working conditions and the north-south division in production and waste handling. Still, political consumerism is quite absent from this field. Public policy measures within this area include energy l…
Don’t blame the youth
The intensive use of information and communication technology (ICT) results in increasing levels of consumption of energy and materials. The use of ICT is widespread among young people, and this paper investigates the everyday practices related to their use of ICT (mainly smart phones and laptops). Based on qualitative studies in the Netherlands and Denmark, we find that energy-intensive use of ICT is encouraged through mutually reinforcing socia…
Environmental assessment of 9 European public bus transportation systems
The challenge of time shifting energy demand practices
Sustainable practices
The first two chapters deal with fundamental problems of definition and change. If practices are to figure as the basic unit of social enquiry, how are they to be recognised and known? Second, if social practices underpin consumption, how is it that new forms come into being and others disappear? In responding to the first question, Alan Warde’s discussion ‘What sort of a practice is eating?’, draws attention to the importance of formalisation an…
Connected presence' in distributed family life
Concurrent with the explosive pervasion of information and communication technologies in recent years, mediated communication has gained a strong position in the daily interaction between family members. Based on the results of qualitative interviews with families in Denmark, this article shows how the mobile phone is used by parents and children to mediate a feeling of closeness while they are physically separated. This practice of `connected pr…
Connected presence' in distributed family life
Concurrent with the explosive pervasion of information and communication technologies in recent years, mediated communication has gained a strong position in the daily interaction between family members. Based on the results of qualitative interviews with families in Denmark, this article shows how the mobile phone is used by parents and children to mediate a feeling of closeness while they are physically separated. This practice of `connected pr…
The challenge of time shifting energy demand practices
Sequence of practices in personal and societal rhythms - Showering as a case
This paper explores methodologically and theoretically how to understand variations in the temporal performances of showering as a practice-as-entity. Time-based data on domestic hot water consumption in 134 Danish households show distinctly different patterns, where some households exhibit highest consumption in the morning and others in the evening. This temporal pattern of showering is analysed based on an innovative combination of statistical…
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions
Increasingly guided by the use of ICT, the flow of humans and materials, smart cities and autonomous mobility amalgamate into a game changer in urban planning. This paper critically explores the role of autonomous (driverless) vehicles in plans for urban futures. By looking into the urban plans of 10 European capitals, we investigate the anticipated promises and hazards of autonomous vehicles. Theoretically, the paper draws upon critical urban mo…
The gendering of energy household labour
Gender considerations, such as the division of household labour and the coordination of everyday household practices, are important for the energy transition of households. Household labour involves everyday practices (e.g. cooking, laundry and caring for others) and practices of energy household labour ( e.g . managing digital technologies and energy systems). Emerging smart energy technologies require energy flexibility and efficiency, thereby …
Don’t blame the youth
The intensive use of information and communication technology (ICT) results in increasing levels of consumption of energy and materials. The use of ICT is widespread among young people, and this paper investigates the everyday practices related to their use of ICT (mainly smart phones and laptops). Based on qualitative studies in the Netherlands and Denmark, we find that energy-intensive use of ICT is encouraged through mutually reinforcing socia…
Promoting practices of sufficiency
There is an urgent need to change everyday practices in less resource-intensive directions. However, present practices unfold within existing material infrastructures and social institutions established during times of fossil fuel abundance. While acknowledging that a transition to sufficiency will require material and institutional transformations, it is also evident that major changes in material arrangements can be highly resource demanding. T…
Connected presence' in distributed family life
Concurrent with the explosive pervasion of information and communication technologies in recent years, mediated communication has gained a strong position in the daily interaction between family members. Based on the results of qualitative interviews with families in Denmark, this article shows how the mobile phone is used by parents and children to mediate a feeling of closeness while they are physically separated. This practice of `connected pr…
Sustainable practices
The first two chapters deal with fundamental problems of definition and change. If practices are to figure as the basic unit of social enquiry, how are they to be recognised and known? Second, if social practices underpin consumption, how is it that new forms come into being and others disappear? In responding to the first question, Alan Warde’s discussion ‘What sort of a practice is eating?’, draws attention to the importance of formalisation an…
The challenge of time shifting energy demand practices
Environmental assessment of 9 European public bus transportation systems
Don’t blame the youth
The intensive use of information and communication technology (ICT) results in increasing levels of consumption of energy and materials. The use of ICT is widespread among young people, and this paper investigates the everyday practices related to their use of ICT (mainly smart phones and laptops). Based on qualitative studies in the Netherlands and Denmark, we find that energy-intensive use of ICT is encouraged through mutually reinforcing socia…
Household Appliances and Electronics
Household appliances and electronics have massive environmental implications caused by the consumption of energy and scarce materials and the release of hazardous chemicals related to production, use, and disposal as well as social issues related to working conditions and the north-south division in production and waste handling. Still, political consumerism is quite absent from this field. Public policy measures within this area include energy l…
Sequence of practices in personal and societal rhythms - Showering as a case
This paper explores methodologically and theoretically how to understand variations in the temporal performances of showering as a practice-as-entity. Time-based data on domestic hot water consumption in 134 Danish households show distinctly different patterns, where some households exhibit highest consumption in the morning and others in the evening. This temporal pattern of showering is analysed based on an innovative combination of statistical…
CHAPTER 11 Can Practice Theory Inspire Studies of ICTs in Everyday Life?
The gendering of energy household labour
Gender considerations, such as the division of household labour and the coordination of everyday household practices, are important for the energy transition of households. Household labour involves everyday practices (e.g. cooking, laundry and caring for others) and practices of energy household labour ( e.g . managing digital technologies and energy systems). Emerging smart energy technologies require energy flexibility and efficiency, thereby …
Pandemic Detours or New Sustainable Pathways? Post-pandemic Mobility Futures in Danish Cities
When mobility normality breaks down, new futures can emerge. This paper explores COVID-19 disruptions of everyday mobility in Danish cities and new emerging pathways toward less carbon-intensive mobility futures in the light of the mobile risk society and practice theory. It uses a stakeholder workshop with public transport providers as empirical outset to start conceptualizing new discussions that have emerged in the wake of COVID-19. Through fo…
The urban governance of autonomous vehicles – In love with AVs or critical sustainability risks to future mobility transitions
Increasingly guided by the use of ICT, the flow of humans and materials, smart cities and autonomous mobility amalgamate into a game changer in urban planning. This paper critically explores the role of autonomous (driverless) vehicles in plans for urban futures. By looking into the urban plans of 10 European capitals, we investigate the anticipated promises and hazards of autonomous vehicles. Theoretically, the paper draws upon critical urban mo…
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact
A change to less carbon-intensive everyday practices is needed to address climate change. Based on existing literature, we discuss which relations between dynamics of routinization and reflexivity that potentially constitute reproduction and change of practices related to food, mobility and housing. Looking across different consumption fields can help clarify more general insights on the importance of routinization and reflexivity in reproduction…
Provide or prevent? Exploring sufficiency imaginaries within Danish systems of provision
The concept of sufficiency, recognised in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, denotes a reduction in production and consumption in the Global North, aiming to limit energy demand and resource use while promoting wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries. Although sufficiency-oriented policies and businesses exist, they are currently outliers, and the concept remains fluid among practitioners and researchers. Th…
Promoting practices of sufficiency
There is an urgent need to change everyday practices in less resource-intensive directions. However, present practices unfold within existing material infrastructures and social institutions established during times of fossil fuel abundance. While acknowledging that a transition to sufficiency will require material and institutional transformations, it is also evident that major changes in material arrangements can be highly resource demanding. T…
Changing Spatialities of Homes in Post-Covid-19 Working-from-Home Practices
The conceptual separation of home and work, central to the cultural history of housing in most modern westernized countries, has been blurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has introduced working from home to many households. Using the lens of Lefebvre, this paper contributes to the ethnographic investigation of how households negotiate the ambiguity of time and space at home in post-lockdown working-from-home practices. The paper shows that (1)…
Institutional material arrangements
Within theories of practice, there is a tradition for conceptualising how practices unfold within material arrangements. Furthermore, consumer studies informed by theories of practice include a growing body of work which focuses on how supplier and professional practices shape everyday practices which involve consumption. With this foundation in practice theory, the article combines existing understandings of stabilisation of practices into a sho…
Just like home? Temporal and moral coordination of everyday life in times of hybrid work
Hybrid work has gained renewed attention post-COVID-19, prompting shifts in how we practice work and use digital technologies to both integrate and separate work and home in time and space. While often presented as flexible and individualized, hybrid work is deeply embedded in daily routines in the home and in collective rhythms. This paper examines how hybrid worker communities in Denmark reconfigure these rhythms and coordinate activities acros…
Sociology (13 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Consumption (sociology (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (4 works) · Everyday life (4 works)