This project maps ethnographically the expanding field of sustainability consultation in three EU countries: Finland, Sweden and Belgium. The key aims are to determine: 1) how socially and ecologically sustainable social change is pursued from the consultant position; and 2) how issues of social and ecological sustainability blend in the context of sustainability consultation. Research data will be drawn from interviews with consultants and observation of their work. The project will produce novel understandings of how sustainable social change is sought in the market context. It will also advance a holistic approach to sustainability by fostering joint pursuit of ecologically and socially sustainable change. A further aim is to co-produce understanding of the topic with consultants by organizing workshops to bring sustainability consultants from different countries into dialogue with each other.

2024

2029