Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude : Case Studies of the New Economy / Juliet B. Schor, Craig J. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schor, Juliet, Editor.

Thompson, Craig J., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental education.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How small, innovative grassroots groups are discovering a new kind of economy and a richer quality of life Many of today's most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system. Can we change direction, move away from business as usual, and achieve a more sustainable, empowering, and humane economy? Through a fascinating array of illuminating case studies, this hope-filled book affirms that we can. In locations across the United States and around the globe, local participants are forging their own versions of small-scale, low-footprint, high-satisfaction lifestyles and communities. From raw-milk consumers and members of alternative agricultural initiatives to time bankers, artisan producers in the Aude region of France, and bicycle mechanics on the South Side of Chicago, individuals and small groups are exploring the practice of plenitude. Their efforts demonstrate how social and economic transformation happens and suggest new paths toward larger-scale change and a richer quality of life for all.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Practicing Plenitude / Schor, Juliet B. / Thompson, Craig J.

Chapter 1. Artisanal Production, Communal Provisioning, and Anticapitalist Politics in the Aude, France / Gowan, Teresa / Slocum, Rachel

Chapter 2. The Social Forms of Local Self- Reliance: Complexities of Community in the Alaskan Transition Movement / Hébert, Karen

Chapter 3. New Cultures of Connection in a Boston Time Bank / Dubois, Emilie A. / Schor, Juliet B. / Carfagna, Lindsey B.

Chapter 4. How Community- Supported Agriculture Facilitates Reembedding and Reterritorializing Practices of Sustainable Consumption / Thompson, Craig J. / Press, Melea

Chapter 5. Raw Milk Underground: Status and Self- Sufficiency in Agro- Food Networks in the United States and Lithuania / Mincyte, Diana

Chapter 6. Sustainable Plea sure and Pleasurable Sustainability at Chicago's Experimental Station / Wengronowitz, Robert

Chapter 7. Why the Sustainable Economy Movement Hasn't Scaled: Toward a Strategy That Empowers Main Street / Holt, Douglas B.

Chapter 8. Cooperative Networks, Participatory Markets, and Rhizomatic Resistance: Situating Plenitude within Contemporary Political Economy Debates / Thompson, Craig J. / Schor, Juliet B.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-20698-4

OCLC:

883377390