Lotte Horikx

Short presentation

The focus of my PhD studies is on how we as individuals connect to ourselves, others and the living world through food and how this might facilitate or hinder sustainable behaviour change. The findings of my ethnographic study highlight how care, (dis)trust and our experienced reality influence how we try to navigate and connect to our food choices as well as other actors in the food system, impacting our (perceived) ability and responsibility for sustainable change.

Keywords

• sustainable development
• consumer behaviour and decision-making
• sustainable behaviour
• ecofeminism
• posthumanism
• embodied/lived experience.

Biography

While my background is in strategy and sustainable management, I have always been particularly interested in why we—as individuals—do what we do, whether consciously or unconsciously, and in understanding the specific context in which we make decisions and take action. Especially when it comes to sustainability, we must move away from the search for a one-size-fits-all solution and instead focus our efforts on understanding the complexity and diversity of individual situations, so that we might tailor our approach accordingly.

Research

Lotte Horikx is a business studies PhD candidate in the GRASS research school, researching individual (sustainable) behaviour (change) with a particular focus on food. My research highlights the importance of showing individuals and their behaviour in all their complexity and how we shape and are shaped by the connections around us, by including ecofeminist, posthumanist and embodied perspectives.