Munro The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households

Compromise, Conflict, Complicity
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1149-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munro, Kirstin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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”

Über Autor(innen)

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