Margit Keller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margit Keller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margit |
| FAMILY NAME | Keller |
| SIGNATURE | KELLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0066-5323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
What's worse, communism or carbon? Using the Transitions Delphi approach to identify viable interventions for the Estonian energy transition
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 Priority Research Questions
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-…
Systems and practices: Reviewing intervention points for transformative socio-technical change
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions
Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions
Introduction to the Special Issue: Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural
This short article introduces the Special Issue 'Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural'. We first discuss the 'practice turn' in the sociology of consumption. We introduce three lacunae that advocates have identified in contemporary theories of practice that animate the contributions of the Special Issue: around the theorisation of culture, economy and the reflexive individual. We go on to discuss the place of culture in the…
Futures in Practice: Regimes of Engagement and Teleoaffectivity
The article triangulates Schatzki's practice theory (2002) and Thévenot's (2001) 'regimes of engagement' with the nascent field of 'social futures' or future-oriented cultural sociology (e.g. Coleman and Tutton 2017; Mische 2009). We present a reading of Thévenot's regimes of engagement that is ontologically compatible with Schatzki's account of social practices and argue that practices are more or less enmeshed in distinct regimes of engagement.…
Consumption research revisited
In Consumption the contributions are grouped under three headings, reflecting three interrelated aspects of consumption processes, bearing close affinity to the specific definition: acquisition, appropriation and appreciation . This chapter focuses on issues related to consumption, and especially to fascinate the more uninitiated reader, a graduate student perhaps with the burgeoning and intriguing field of consumption studies. It aims to de-ossi…
Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives
This chapter focuses on particular issues for an intervention designer, taking social practice theory (SPT) as the basis. SPT literature conceptualizes consumption as a &s;moment in everyday practices&s;. Sustainability and health-oriented social change is always a mix of more wide-ranging political agreements and more local programmes and everyday steps towards these goals, sometimes with significant results and sometimes with none whatsoever. S…
Routledge Handbook on Consumption
Imagined futures of everyday life in the circular economy
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Consumers, citizens or citizen-consumers? Domestic users in the process of Estonian electricity market liberalization
Consumer Socialisation and Value Orientations among Estonian and Chinese Young People
This paper asks if Estonian and Chinese tweens’ access to pocket money influences their brand valuation, as well as value orientations in the context of perceived peer popularity and personal well‐being. Surveys conducted in autumns 2006 (China n = 188) and 2007 (Estonia n = 111) show an inherent cultural resistance among tweens in both countries towards using material standards to evaluate people and social relations. Access to own money correla…
Looking Russian or Estonian: Young Consumers Constructing the Ethnic "Self" and "Other
This paper discusses how transnational consumer culture, specifically clothing fashion, is adapted for the formation of local inter-ethnic relations in Estonia and how this practice has changed over time, resulting in different repertoires on consumption in the Soviet era and today. Based on informant interviews with Estonian and Russian students, we analysed young people's reciprocal representations of clothing style, accessories, and brand choi…
Emerging Consumer Types in a Transition Culture: Consumption Patterns of Generational and Ethnic Groups in Estonia
Between Consumerism and Protectionism: Attitudes towards children, consumption and the media in Estonia
This study measures attitudes towards children's vulnerability or empowerment within consumer culture, based on data from a representative population survey ( N = 1475) conducted in Estonia in 2005. The study use indices comprised of assessments of consumption practices and assertions pertaining to the 'endangered vs empowered child' debate in consumer and media studies. The results of the analysis show that consumerism and brand valuation are mo…
Young Estonians and Danes as online shoppers: A comparative study
In this study, interpretations of young Danes’ and Estonians’ online shopping are compared based on interviews with 23 Danes and 24 Estonians aged 12–18 years. The findings show that young Danes are more familiar with online shopping and buying, and view it more positively than do young Estonians. This is well reflected by the fact that Estonians focus mainly on the risks of online shopping, expressing various forms of distrust, while young Danes…
Coping With Consumer Culture: Elderly Urban Consumers in Post-Soviet Estonia
The article discusses representations of consumer culture in today's Estonia by elderly urban consumers. The study, which draws on 30 original interviews with urban consumers over 45 years of age, outlines the clashes between the Soviet consumer culture and its current counterpart. We place the analysis within the framework of Simmel's objective and subjective culture, as well as within that of several sociological and anthropological studies. Ba…
Needs, Desires and the Experience of Scarcity: Representations of recreational shopping in post-Soviet Estonia
This article contributes to the new field of post-Soviet consumer culture studies by exploring the meanings of recreational shopping carried by the Estonian notion of s oppamine, adapted from the English word ‘shopping’. It draws on empirical data derived from 71 original interviews with Estonian-speaking consumers. Underlying these respondents’ normative judgements of their own and others’ shopping behaviour is a system of moral concepts in whic…
Freedom calling: Telephony, mobility and consumption in post-socialist Estonia
This article focuses on the development of consumer culture and specifically the notion of consumer freedom in the transitional society of Estonia. Drawing on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Don Slater as well as the notion of ‘transition culture’ proposed by Michael Kennedy, it investigates the importance of western goods and western notions of consumer choice in anchoring emerging conceptions of individual freedom in post-socialist countries. Th…
Return to the `Consuming West: Young People's Perceptions about the Consumerization of Estonia
This article looks at how young people in post-communist Estonia attribute meaning to consumer goods and to the development of consumption during the last decade. The empirical material comprises 45 qualitatively analysed student essays and 25 in-depth interviews. The authors arrange the material onto two main axes: the temporal axis of Estonian transformation and the spatial axis of Estonia (including the memory of Soviet Estonia) versus today's…
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions
Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions
Futures in Practice: Regimes of Engagement and Teleoaffectivity
The article triangulates Schatzki's practice theory (2002) and Thévenot's (2001) 'regimes of engagement' with the nascent field of 'social futures' or future-oriented cultural sociology (e.g. Coleman and Tutton 2017; Mische 2009). We present a reading of Thévenot's regimes of engagement that is ontologically compatible with Schatzki's account of social practices and argue that practices are more or less enmeshed in distinct regimes of engagement.…
Return to the `Consuming West: Young People's Perceptions about the Consumerization of Estonia
This article looks at how young people in post-communist Estonia attribute meaning to consumer goods and to the development of consumption during the last decade. The empirical material comprises 45 qualitatively analysed student essays and 25 in-depth interviews. The authors arrange the material onto two main axes: the temporal axis of Estonian transformation and the spatial axis of Estonia (including the memory of Soviet Estonia) versus today's…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural
This short article introduces the Special Issue 'Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural'. We first discuss the 'practice turn' in the sociology of consumption. We introduce three lacunae that advocates have identified in contemporary theories of practice that animate the contributions of the Special Issue: around the theorisation of culture, economy and the reflexive individual. We go on to discuss the place of culture in the…
Looking Russian or Estonian: Young Consumers Constructing the Ethnic "Self" and "Other
This paper discusses how transnational consumer culture, specifically clothing fashion, is adapted for the formation of local inter-ethnic relations in Estonia and how this practice has changed over time, resulting in different repertoires on consumption in the Soviet era and today. Based on informant interviews with Estonian and Russian students, we analysed young people's reciprocal representations of clothing style, accessories, and brand choi…
Needs, Desires and the Experience of Scarcity: Representations of recreational shopping in post-Soviet Estonia
This article contributes to the new field of post-Soviet consumer culture studies by exploring the meanings of recreational shopping carried by the Estonian notion of s oppamine, adapted from the English word ‘shopping’. It draws on empirical data derived from 71 original interviews with Estonian-speaking consumers. Underlying these respondents’ normative judgements of their own and others’ shopping behaviour is a system of moral concepts in whic…
Emerging Consumer Types in a Transition Culture: Consumption Patterns of Generational and Ethnic Groups in Estonia
Systems and practices: Reviewing intervention points for transformative socio-technical change
Freedom calling: Telephony, mobility and consumption in post-socialist Estonia
This article focuses on the development of consumer culture and specifically the notion of consumer freedom in the transitional society of Estonia. Drawing on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Don Slater as well as the notion of ‘transition culture’ proposed by Michael Kennedy, it investigates the importance of western goods and western notions of consumer choice in anchoring emerging conceptions of individual freedom in post-socialist countries. Th…
Consumers, citizens or citizen-consumers? Domestic users in the process of Estonian electricity market liberalization
Between Consumerism and Protectionism: Attitudes towards children, consumption and the media in Estonia
This study measures attitudes towards children's vulnerability or empowerment within consumer culture, based on data from a representative population survey ( N = 1475) conducted in Estonia in 2005. The study use indices comprised of assessments of consumption practices and assertions pertaining to the 'endangered vs empowered child' debate in consumer and media studies. The results of the analysis show that consumerism and brand valuation are mo…
What's worse, communism or carbon? Using the Transitions Delphi approach to identify viable interventions for the Estonian energy transition
Young Estonians and Danes as online shoppers: A comparative study
In this study, interpretations of young Danes’ and Estonians’ online shopping are compared based on interviews with 23 Danes and 24 Estonians aged 12–18 years. The findings show that young Danes are more familiar with online shopping and buying, and view it more positively than do young Estonians. This is well reflected by the fact that Estonians focus mainly on the risks of online shopping, expressing various forms of distrust, while young Danes…
Return to the `Consuming West: Young People's Perceptions about the Consumerization of Estonia
This article looks at how young people in post-communist Estonia attribute meaning to consumer goods and to the development of consumption during the last decade. The empirical material comprises 45 qualitatively analysed student essays and 25 in-depth interviews. The authors arrange the material onto two main axes: the temporal axis of Estonian transformation and the spatial axis of Estonia (including the memory of Soviet Estonia) versus today's…
Coping With Consumer Culture: Elderly Urban Consumers in Post-Soviet Estonia
The article discusses representations of consumer culture in today's Estonia by elderly urban consumers. The study, which draws on 30 original interviews with urban consumers over 45 years of age, outlines the clashes between the Soviet consumer culture and its current counterpart. We place the analysis within the framework of Simmel's objective and subjective culture, as well as within that of several sociological and anthropological studies. Ba…
Needs, Desires and the Experience of Scarcity: Representations of recreational shopping in post-Soviet Estonia
This article contributes to the new field of post-Soviet consumer culture studies by exploring the meanings of recreational shopping carried by the Estonian notion of s oppamine, adapted from the English word ‘shopping’. It draws on empirical data derived from 71 original interviews with Estonian-speaking consumers. Underlying these respondents’ normative judgements of their own and others’ shopping behaviour is a system of moral concepts in whic…
Freedom calling: Telephony, mobility and consumption in post-socialist Estonia
This article focuses on the development of consumer culture and specifically the notion of consumer freedom in the transitional society of Estonia. Drawing on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Don Slater as well as the notion of ‘transition culture’ proposed by Michael Kennedy, it investigates the importance of western goods and western notions of consumer choice in anchoring emerging conceptions of individual freedom in post-socialist countries. Th…
Young Estonians and Danes as online shoppers: A comparative study
In this study, interpretations of young Danes’ and Estonians’ online shopping are compared based on interviews with 23 Danes and 24 Estonians aged 12–18 years. The findings show that young Danes are more familiar with online shopping and buying, and view it more positively than do young Estonians. This is well reflected by the fact that Estonians focus mainly on the risks of online shopping, expressing various forms of distrust, while young Danes…
Emerging Consumer Types in a Transition Culture: Consumption Patterns of Generational and Ethnic Groups in Estonia
Between Consumerism and Protectionism: Attitudes towards children, consumption and the media in Estonia
This study measures attitudes towards children's vulnerability or empowerment within consumer culture, based on data from a representative population survey ( N = 1475) conducted in Estonia in 2005. The study use indices comprised of assessments of consumption practices and assertions pertaining to the 'endangered vs empowered child' debate in consumer and media studies. The results of the analysis show that consumerism and brand valuation are mo…
Consumer Socialisation and Value Orientations among Estonian and Chinese Young People
This paper asks if Estonian and Chinese tweens’ access to pocket money influences their brand valuation, as well as value orientations in the context of perceived peer popularity and personal well‐being. Surveys conducted in autumns 2006 (China n = 188) and 2007 (Estonia n = 111) show an inherent cultural resistance among tweens in both countries towards using material standards to evaluate people and social relations. Access to own money correla…
Looking Russian or Estonian: Young Consumers Constructing the Ethnic "Self" and "Other
This paper discusses how transnational consumer culture, specifically clothing fashion, is adapted for the formation of local inter-ethnic relations in Estonia and how this practice has changed over time, resulting in different repertoires on consumption in the Soviet era and today. Based on informant interviews with Estonian and Russian students, we analysed young people's reciprocal representations of clothing style, accessories, and brand choi…
Consumers, citizens or citizen-consumers? Domestic users in the process of Estonian electricity market liberalization
Consumption research revisited
In Consumption the contributions are grouped under three headings, reflecting three interrelated aspects of consumption processes, bearing close affinity to the specific definition: acquisition, appropriation and appreciation . This chapter focuses on issues related to consumption, and especially to fascinate the more uninitiated reader, a graduate student perhaps with the burgeoning and intriguing field of consumption studies. It aims to de-ossi…
Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives
This chapter focuses on particular issues for an intervention designer, taking social practice theory (SPT) as the basis. SPT literature conceptualizes consumption as a &s;moment in everyday practices&s;. Sustainability and health-oriented social change is always a mix of more wide-ranging political agreements and more local programmes and everyday steps towards these goals, sometimes with significant results and sometimes with none whatsoever. S…
Routledge Handbook on Consumption
Imagined futures of everyday life in the circular economy
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Introduction to the Special Issue: Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural
This short article introduces the Special Issue 'Renewing Theories of Practice and Reappraising the Cultural'. We first discuss the 'practice turn' in the sociology of consumption. We introduce three lacunae that advocates have identified in contemporary theories of practice that animate the contributions of the Special Issue: around the theorisation of culture, economy and the reflexive individual. We go on to discuss the place of culture in the…
Futures in Practice: Regimes of Engagement and Teleoaffectivity
The article triangulates Schatzki's practice theory (2002) and Thévenot's (2001) 'regimes of engagement' with the nascent field of 'social futures' or future-oriented cultural sociology (e.g. Coleman and Tutton 2017; Mische 2009). We present a reading of Thévenot's regimes of engagement that is ontologically compatible with Schatzki's account of social practices and argue that practices are more or less enmeshed in distinct regimes of engagement.…
Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 Priority Research Questions
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-…
Systems and practices: Reviewing intervention points for transformative socio-technical change
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions
What's worse, communism or carbon? Using the Transitions Delphi approach to identify viable interventions for the Estonian energy transition
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Advertising (6 works)