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The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities
John M. Meyer
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Description for The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary volume develops a distinctive new way of talking about environmental concerns in post-industrial society. Editor(s): Meyer, John M.; Kersten, Jens. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; RG; RNA; RNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
The Greening of Everyday Life 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. The volume builds upon internal criticisms of dominant strands of contemporary environmentalism in post-industrial societies, and 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. In exploring alternatives, the chapter authors utilize conceptual ... Read more
The Greening of Everyday Life 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. The volume builds upon internal criticisms of dominant strands of contemporary environmentalism in post-industrial societies, and 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. In exploring alternatives, the chapter authors utilize conceptual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198758662
SKU
V9780198758662
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About John M. Meyer
John M. Meyer is Professor in the Department of Politics and in the programs on Environmental Studies and Environment and Community at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author, most recently, of Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015) and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political ... Read more
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