Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life (eBook, ePUB)

Interdisciplinary perspectives
Redaktion: Syse, Karen; Mueller, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand creative responses at several levels of consideration and action.

Written by an international team of contributors, this book examines in-depth the relationship between sustainability and the good life. Drawing on wealth of theories, from social practice theory to architecture and design theory, and disciplines, such as anthropology and environmental philosophy, this volume promotes participatory action-research based approaches to encourage sustainability and wellbeing at local levels. It covers topical issues such the politics of prosperity, globalization, and indigenous notions of "the good life" and happiness". Finally it places a strong emphasis on food at the heart of the sustainability and good life debate, for instance binding the global south to the north through import and exports, or linking everyday lives to ideals within the dream of the good life, with cookbooks and shows.

This interdisciplinary book provides invaluable insights for researchers and postgraduate students interested in the contribution of the environmental humanities to the sustainability debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317747796
• Artikelnr.: 41849342

Autorenporträt

Karen Lykke Syse is Associate Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway. Martin Lee Mueller is a research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Enough Is Enough? Re-Imagining an Ethics and Aesthetics of
Sustainability for the 21st Century Lawrence Buell 2. The Essayistic Spirit
of Utopia Thorunn Gullaksen Endreson 3. Towards a Sustainable Flourishing:
Democracy, Hedonism and the Politics of Prosperity Kate Soper 4. Is the
Good Life Sustainable? A Three-Decade Study of Values, Happiness and
Sustainability in Norway Ottar Hellevik 5. Well-Being and Environmental
Responsibility Bengt Brülde 6. The Problem of Habits for a Sustainable
Transformation Hal Wilhite 7. Well-Being in Sustainability Transitions:
Making Use of Needs Felix Rauschmayer and Ines Omann 8. Human Needs and the
Environment Reconciled: Participatory Action-Research for Sustainable
Development in Peru Mònica Guillen-Royo 9. On the Good Life and Rising
Electricity Consumption in Rural Zanzibar Tanja Winther 10. Celebrity
Chefs, Ethical Food Consumption, and the Good Life Karen Lykke Syse 11.
Follow the Food. How Eating and Drinking Shape Our Cities Jesper Pagh 12.
Caged Welfare. Evading the Good Life for Egg Laying Hens Kristian Bjørkdahl
13. Being Salmon, Being Human. Notes on an Ecological Turn in the Modern
Narrative Tradition Martin Lee Mueller 14. Afterword: Beyond the Paradox of
the Big, Bad Wolf Thomas Hylland Eriksen