Abstract
![CDATA[To date, much of the debate, both public and academic, around household sustainability and the ethics of associated forms of consumption have primarily been situated within certain geographic and cultural contexts. To be specific, the idea of household sustainability, framed as it is and projected onto anxieties about climate change and global peril, has essentially been tied to the shifting moral landscape of consumption in the industrialised, or indeed post-industrial, societies of the so-called global North or ‘West’. Far less attention has been given to household sustainability in the ‘developing world’. Instead discussions around environmental impact have been oriented towards issues like urban pollution, the inadequacies of infrastructure, such as transport, waste management and so forth. such points of focus remain prevalent because environmental concerns continue to be enmeshed in paradigms of ‘development’; a discourse advanced during the second half of the twentieth century, defined by the goals of poverty alleviation, economic growth and rising GDPs. understandably, the household has been seen as a key site of wealth accumulation vis-a-vis poverty reduction and as a marker of social mobility.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Material Geographies of Household Sustainability |
Place of Publication | U.K |
Publisher | Ashgate |
Pages | 51-68 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781409408161 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- environmental protection
- household ecology
- material culture
- sustainability
- sustainable living