The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households - Kirstin Munro

The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households

Compromise, Conflict, Complicity

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
198 Seiten
2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1147-4 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, this book sheds much-needed light on how sustainability-oriented households balance priorities and get things done in day-to-day life, offering crucial insights about eco-conscious living at an individual level.
Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, this book describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way they get things done into alignment with their environmental values. Because the ability to make changes is constrained by their culture and capitalist society, there are negative consequences and trade-offs involved in these household-level sustainability practices.


The households described in this book shed light on the full extent of the trade-offs involved in promoting sustainability at the household level as a solution to environmental problems.

Kirstin Munro is Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York.

1. Introduction: “This Can’t Be All Up to Me”


2. Eco-Conscious Household Production and Capitalist Society


3. Priorities in Eco-Conscious Households


4. Resources and Constraints in Eco-Conscious Households


5. Managing Household Waste


6. Cleanliness and Comfort


7. Doing Their Own Research


8. Conflict


9. “How Do We Live with Ourselves?”


10. Conclusion: “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-5292-1147-6 / 1529211476
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-1147-4 / 9781529211474
Zustand Neuware
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