The greening of everyday life : challenging practices, imagining possibilities / John M. Meyer, Jens Kersten, editors

Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource
Additional Creators:: Meyer, John M. and Kersten, Jens, 1967-

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Concepts and Movements -- 1.The New Environmentalism of Everyday Life: Sustainability, Material Flows, and Movements / Romand Coles -- 2.Just Another Brick in the Toilet: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth and the Riddle of Green Consumer Culture / Andrew N. Case -- pt. II Household -- 3.The Household as Infrastructure: The Politics and Porosity of Dwelling in a Time of Environmental Emergency / Fiona Allon -- 4.Homemaking Practices of Provision and Maintenance: Implications for Environmental Action / Cecily J. Maller -- 5.The Everyday Toxicity of the "Average" North American Home / Teena Gabrielson -- 6.Household Maintenance and the Environmental Politics of Tending / Brad Mapes-Martins -- pt. III Infrastructure -- 7.Greening Lifestyles, Homes, and Urban Infrastructure in Chicago, IL, and Jacksonville, FL / Michael J. Lorr -- 8.At Home in the Watershed: Environmental Imaginaries and Spatial Politics in Los Angeles / Sayd Randle -- pt. IV Biodiversity in Unexpected Spaces -- 9.Reimagining the Backyard: Implications and Opportunities for Sustainability / Shannon K. Orr -- 10.Urban Biodiversity: Ambivalences, Concepts, and Policies / Jens M. Kersten -- pt. V Land -- 11.The Tragedy of the Uncommon: Property, Possession, and Belonging in Community Gardens / Piers H. G. Stephens -- 12.Making the Land Connection: Local Food Farms and Sustainability of Place / Jennifer Meta Robinson -- pt. VI Mobility -- 13.Automobility and Freedom / John M. Meyer -- 14.Bicycling and the Politics of Recognition / Yogi Hale Hendlin -- pt. VII (Dis)Engagement -- 15.Ontologies of Sustainability in Ecovillage Culture: Integrating Ecology, Economics, Community, and Consciousness / Karen Litfin -- 16.Everyday Household Practice in Alternative Residential Dwellings: The Non-Environmental Motivations for Environmental Behavior / Chelsea Schelly.

Summary:

This volume develops a distinctive new way of talking about environmental concerns in post-industrial society. It brings together several conceptual frameworks with a diversity of case studies and practical examples of efforts to orient everyday material practices toward greater sustainability. Building upon internal criticisms of dominant strands of contemporary environmentalism in post-industrial societies, it develops a new approach which emerges from a number of disciplines, but is unified by a normative concern for the material objects and practices familiar to members of societies in their everyday lives.

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9780191818585 (ebook)

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Specialized.

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Previously issued in print: 2016.

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