@article{2025:marasco:social_hab,
title = {Social habitus and climate change: Rethinking demand-side mitigation through Eliasian figurational sociology},
year = {2025},
note = {This article explores the analytical potential of Norbert Elias’s
notion of social habitus for understanding resistance and change in
everyday practices relevant to demand-side climate mitigation. It
unfolds in two steps. First, it revisits the concept of social
habitus, emphasising its value for interpreting the emotional and
figurational dimensions of social practices. Second, it applies this
theoretical lens to focus group data collected in Italy to examine how
emotions, identity, and social interdependencies sustain high-carbon
habits despite widespread environmental awareness. By integrating
theoretical and empirical analysis, the paper shows how the habitus
can serve as a key interpretive tool for understanding the emotional
foundations of resistance to behavioural change.},
journal = {Culture, Practice & Europeanization},
pages = {174--192},
author = {Marasco, Vincenzo and Perulli, Angela},
volume = {10},
number = {2}
}