Food consumption as social practice: Solidarity Purchasing Groups in Rome, Italy

Transcending dichotomous perspectives of sustainable consumption as a matter of changing individual behaviour patterns or as something that is constrained by material and normative considerations, we employ concepts derived from theories of practice and sustainable consumption to analyse the social construction of a new food buying routine, allowing the interconnections between agency, cultural and social norms and material/functional structures to emerge in a continuous dialectical process of routinisation and reflexivity.