Confronting consumption / edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Consumption and its externalities: where economy meets ecology / Thomas Princen
- Individualization: plant a tree, buy a bike, save the world? / Michael Maniates
- Commoditization: consumption efficiency and an economy of care and connection / Jack Manno
- Distancing: consumption and the severing of feedback / Thomas Princen
- Consumption and environment in a global economy / Ken Conca
- The distancing of waste: overconsumption in a global economy / Jennifer Clapp
- Environmentally damaging consumption: the impact of American markets on tropical ecosystems in the twentieth century / Richard Tucker
- In search of consumptive resistance: the voluntary simplicity movement / Michael Maniates
- Jamming culture: Adbusters' hip media campaign against consumerism / Marilyn Bordwell
- Think globally, transact locally: the local currency movement and green political economy / Eric Helleiner
- Caveat certificatum: the case of forest certification / Fred Gale
- Citizens or consumers: the home power movement as a new practice of technology / Jesse Tatum
- Conclusion: To confront consumption / Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.