Material Geographies of Household Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781138268333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 254 str.

Andrew Gorman-Murray; Ruth Lane

Opis

Charting new research directions, this book constructs a series of imperatives for linking culturally informed research around household sustainability with policy and planning. The household, or 'home', is a critical scale for understanding activities that connect individual behaviours and societal attitudes. The focus on the household in this collection provides a window into the sheer diversity of homemaking and maintenance activities that entail resource use.

Recenzje

'This important collection brings together cultural studies and human geography to illuminate the critical arena of household sustainability. Demonstrating the diverse ways in which materiality matters to the cultures, practices and governing of domestic spaces, the contributors highlight the importance of taking the home seriously as a site within which sustainability is made, given meaning, and contested. As an antidote to the overly prescriptive accounts of sustainable consumption and individual behaviour, this collection provides important insights into how and why households may be able to act as a critical site in forging more sustainable future. With its novel theoretical contributions and detailed cases, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers in the social sciences.' Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University, UK '... a compelling and indispensable collection. This book, published at a time of increased concern about the human impact on the environment, is thus supremely topical... It will undoubtedly prove of interest to many academics across anthropology, geography, sociology and political science.' Housing Studies 'Material Geographies of Household Sustainability is a professionally presented book that offers important insights into materiality, sustainability and the household, and the existing and potential links between these phenomena... of interest to a range of social science disciplines...' Geographical Research '... this book offers an important contribution to geographical engagements with household sustainability, in particular with its determination to take the role of the household seriously in shaping more sustainable futures... Material Geographies of Household Sustainability will be of considerable interest to geography students and scholars alike.' Area

O autorze

Dr Ruth Lane, Senior Lecturer, Human Dimensions of Envt and Sustainability, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Australia