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Abstract
The two authors have chosen to write this review in the first person plural because it is the result of a dialogue about their personal understanding of the book, drawing on their respective disciplinary backgrounds. Mònica is a social scientist researching wellbeing and consumption, drawing on economics, social psychology, sociology and development studies. Mònica wrote her book Sustainability and Wellbeing: Human Scale Development in Practice in parallel with Harold Wilhite’s writing of the subject of this review. They shared chapters to read during the process while both worked at the Center for Development and the Environment (SUM) in Oslo. Anders is a sociologist researching energy practices. By combining the traits from Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice with newer accounts of social practice theory, Harold Wilhite’s work provided inspiration to Anders to relate these theories to energy consumption and habits, for example to conceptualise and investigate the embodiment of energy practices. Book Symposium