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 everyday practices
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 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 these
motivations, 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 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 everyday life - starting with the materials and flows that provide
food, power, clothing, and other basic needs.
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ISBN
9780192578549
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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