Eco-Conscious Living: How Environmental Movements Shape Daily Life

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The Nile on eBay Sustainable Materialism by David Schlosberg, Luke Craven In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in everyday life. This book focuses on sustainable materialism, and examines the political and social motivations of activists and movement groups involved in this growing and expanding practice. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food systems, to community solar, to more sustainable fashion. No longer willing to take part in unsustainable practices and institutions, and not satisfied with either purely individualistic and consumer responses or standard political processes and movement tactics, many activists and groups are increasingly focusing on restructuring everydaypractices of the circulation of the basic needs of everyday life. This work labels such action sustainable materialism, and examines the political and social motivations of activists and movementgroups involved in this growing and expanding practice. The central argument is that these movements are motivated by four key factors: frustration with the lack of accomplishments on broader environmental policies, a desire for environmental and social justice, an active and material resistance to the power of traditional industries, and a form of sustainability that is attentive to the flow of materials through bodies, communities, economies, and environments. In addition to thesemotivations, these movements demonstrate such material action as political action, in contrast to existing critiques of new materialism as apolitical or post-political. Overall, sustainable materialism isexplored as a set of movements with unique qualities, based in collective rather than individual action, a dedication to local and prefigurative politics, and a demand that sustainability be practiced in everyday life - starting with the materials and flows that provide food, power, clothing, and other basic needs. Author Biography David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, Payne-Scott Professor, and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. His main theoretical interests are in environmental and climate justice, climate adaptation and resilience, and environmental movements and the practices of everyday life - what he terms sustainable materialism. Professor Schlosberg's more appliedwork includes public perceptions of adaptation and resilience, the health and social impacts of climate change, and responses to food insecurity. His previous authored, co-authored, or co-edited bookswith Oxford include Defining Environmental Justice, The Climate-Challenged Society, and The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Professor Schlosberg has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, Australian National University, Princeton University, University of Washington, and UC Santa Cruz, among others. Luke Craven is a Research Fellow in the Public Service Research Group at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.Dr Craven's research focuses on developing new tools to understand and address complex policy challenges. He works with a range of public sector organisations to adapt and apply systems frameworks to support policy design, implementation, and evaluation. He is known for developing the System Effects methodology, which is widely used to analyse complex causal relationships in participatory and qualitative data. He is also involved in number of collaborative projects that are developinginnovative solutions to complex policy challenges, which includes work focused on food insecurity, health inequality, and climate resilience.Dr Craven holds a PhD in Political Science at the University of Sydney, where he remains affiliated with the Sydney Environment Institute, and the Charles Perkins Centre. Table of Contents Part One: Introducing Sustainable Materialism1: An Introduction to Sustainable MaterialismPart Two: Political Motivations for Sustainable Materialism2: From Postmaterialism to Sustainable Materialism3: Environmental and Social Justice in Sustainable Materialist Movements4: Material Practice and Resistance to Power5: Sustainability and the Politics of Materialist ActionPart Three: Innovations and Conclusions6: New Directions and Virtues in Sustainable Materialist Movements7: Conclusion: From Sustainable Materialism to System Change Long Description A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food systems, to community solar, to more sustainable fashion. No longer willing to take part in unsustainable practices and institutions, and not satisfied with either purely individualistic and consumer responses or standard political processes and movement tactics, many activists and groups are increasingly focusing on restructuring everydaypractices of the circulation of the basic needs of everyday life. This work labels such action sustainable materialism, and examines the political and social motivations of activists and movement groups involved in this growing and expanding practice. The central argument is that these movements aremotivated by four key factors: frustration with the lack of accomplishments on broader environmental policies, a desire for environmental and social justice, an active and material resistance to the power of traditional industries, and a form of sustainability that is attentive to the flow of materials through bodies, communities, economies, and environments. In addition to these motivations, these movements demonstrate such material action as political action, in contrast to existing critiquesof new materialism as apolitical or post-political. Overall, sustainable materialism is explored as a set of movements with unique qualities, based in collective rather than individual action, a dedication to local and prefigurative politics, and a demand that sustainability be practiced in everydaylife - starting with the materials and flows that provide food, power, clothing, and other basic needs. Feature The first major work to explore the political motivations of new materialist movementsPresents an empirically-grounded framework for understanding a range of movements, from food justice, to community energy, to sustainable fashionOffers a unique variety of perspectives, using extensive qualitative research based on interviews of 100 activists Details ISBN 0198841507 Author Luke Craven Pages 208 Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 0198841507 ISBN-13 9780198841500 Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Position Research Fellow Affiliation Research Fellow, University of New South Wales, Canberra DEWEY 304.2 Short Title Sustainable Materialism Language English Publication Date 2019-08-14 UK Release Date 2019-08-14 AU Release Date 2019-08-14 NZ Release Date 2019-08-14 Alternative 9780192867049 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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