Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367671730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Cindy Isenhour; Mari Martiskainen; Lucie Middlemiss

Opis

This volume presents empirical and theoretical illustrations of the various means through which politics and power influence (un)sustainable consumption practices, policies and perspectives. The authors discuss why current efforts have largely failed to meet environmental targets and explore promising directions for research, policy and practice

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Tables

Author Biographies

Introduction

Power, Politics and Unsustainable Consumption

Lucie Middlemiss, Cindy Isenhour, Mari Martiskainen

Section I: On Political Economy and Sustainable Consumption

1. A Consuming Globalism: On Power and the Post-Paris Agreement Politics of Climate and Consumption







Cindy Isenhour












2. Practice Does Not Make Perfect: Sustainable Consumption, Practice Theory and the Question of Power







Dennis Soron












3. Sources of Power for Sustainable Consumption: Where to Look







Doris Fuchs, Sylvia Lorek, Antonietta Di Giulio, Rico Defila








　





Section II: On Governmentality and the Notion of the Subject in Sustainable Consumption









4. Pro-environmental Behaviour Change and Governmentality: Counter-Conduct and the Making up of Environmental Individuals







Tom Hargreaves












5. Freedom, Autonomy and Sustainable Behaviours: The Politics of Designing Consumer Choice







Tobias Gumbert












6. The ‘Double Dividend’ Discourse in Sustainable Consumption: A Critical Commentary







Lucie Middlemiss, David Wingate and Anna Wesselink








Section III: On the Politics of Identity and Difference in Sustainable Consumption









7. Housing as a Function of Consumption and Production in the United Kingdom







Mari Martiskainen












8. Power and Politics in the (Work-Life) Balance: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Risks and Rewards of Downshifting







Jacob Hammond & Emily Huddart Kennedy








　









9. Who Participates in Community-Based Sustainable Consumption Projects and Why Does It Matter? A Constructively Critical Approach

Manisha Anantharaman, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Lucie Middlemiss and Sarah Bradbury

Index

O autorze

Cindy Isenhour is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, USA.

Mari Martiskainen is a Research Fellow at Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK

Lucie Middlemiss is Associate Professor in Sustainability, and Co-director of the Sustainability Research Institute, in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, UK.