Acedemic interests
- Sustainability and consumption
- Theories of practice
- Governance and public administration
- Meat consumption
- Energy consumption
Courses taught
Background
- MA: Development, Environment and Cultural change, UiO
- BA: Public Administration, OsloMet
Publications
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Sundet, Øyvind; Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn
(2023).
Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites: exploring the experiences and challenges of meat reducers in Norway.
Consumption and Society.
doi:
10.1332/ZGZV3476.
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Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a complex web of factors contributing to meat consumption, reduction and avoidance. This article contributes to a nuanced understanding of the experiences, approaches and challenges faced by meat reducers. The data was collected through in-depth interviews with 26 self-declared meat reducers in Norway. By framing consumption as embedded in social practices, this article highlights how broader cultural, social and material conditions structure eating and hence meat consumption. A central finding is that through processes of socialisation and habituation, performances of eating often conform to the prevailing conventions inscribed in the socio-material environment in which they are embedded. We thus question the popular depictions of individuals as efficient drivers of dietary changes and highlight the many factors involved in reproducing the ‘normalness’ of meat-intense diets, demonstrating how individual intentions, choices and habits are themselves rooted in, and circumscribed by, prevailing conventions, that is, practices.
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Hansen, Arve; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn
(2023).
Friday tacos and outdoor barbeques: Re-configuring ‘institutionalized meals’ towards meat reduction in Norway .
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Korsnes, Marius; Hansen, Arve; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn
(2023).
The Circulation of Meat: How contemporary food practices reproduce the demand for meat in Norway.
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Sundet, Øyvind
(2023).
Kjøttforbruk: hvorfor er det vanskelig å redusere – selv for de som ønsker det?
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Hansen, Arve; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Volden, Johannes & Sundet, Øyvind
(2022).
Kjøttskam eller ribbeglede?
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Hvordan utvikler kjøttforbruket i verden seg? Hvilken rolle vil kjøttet ha i fremtidens matsystem? Hvorfor er det så vanskelig å spise mindre kjøtt? Kan kjøtt bli laget av planter? Vil vi spise melorm istedenfor kjøttdeig i fremtidens fredagstaco? Bli med på en samtale om kjøttproduksjon, kjøttspising, og kjøttkutt i Norge og verden
Samtalen vil bli ledet av fire forskere i prosjektet Meatigation – Mitigating climate change through meat https://meatigation.no/
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Sundet, Øyvind
(2022).
Performing meat reduction: exploring the experiences, approaches and challenges of Norwegian meat reducers.
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Sundet, Øyvind
(2022).
Performing meat reduction: exploring the experiences, approaches and challenges of Norwegian meat reducers.
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Sundet, Øyvind
(2021).
Husholdningers respons på og holdninger til tiltak for fleksibel strømbruk: resultater fra dybdeintervjuer blant husholdninger i Tromsø og Porsgrunn.
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Hansen, Arve; Korsnes, Marius; Sundet, Øyvind; Volden, Johannes R. & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn
(2021).
Kjøttkutt krever politisk styring!
Klassekampen.
ISSN 0805-3839.
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Vindegg, Mikkel; Sundet, Øyvind & Winther, Tanja
(2023).
Strømkunders oppfatninger om ny nettleiemodell: rettferdighet og fleksibilitet.
CICERO Senter for klimaforskning.
2023(02).
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Rapporten oppsummerer funn fra kvalitative undersøkelser knyttet til kunders oppfatninger om ny nettleiemodell for strøm i Norge. Samlet viser resultatene at mange av kundene har en viss grad av bekymring for at den nye nettleien kan få uheldige og urettferdige fordelingsvirkninger. Kundene tar hensyn til faktorer (f.eks. husholdningssammensetning) som ligger utenfor nettselskapenes nåværende mandat å inkludere i tariffberegninger. Kundenes uttrykte bekymringer taler for gradvise endringer i nettariffer framover, framfor omfattende endringer som vil kunne gi store utslag som mange vil oppfatte som urimelige.
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Apr. 23, 2020 10:23 AM
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July 13, 2023 9:44 PM