Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society : Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Maurie J.
Other Authors: Brown, Halina Szejnwald, Vergragt, Philip J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Series:Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I Consumption and social change: an introductory discussion and synthetic framework; 1 Introduction; Part II Niches of social innovation; 2 The new sharing economy: enacting the eco-habitus; 3 Toward a more solidaristic sharing economy: examples from Switzerland; 4 Social change at the nexus of consumption and politics: a case study of local food movements.
  • 5 Institutionalization processes in transformative social innovation: capture dynamics in the social solidarity economy and basic income initiatives6 Consumption and social change: sustainable lifestyles in times of economic crisis; Part III Post-consumerist transitions; 7 When "gestures of change" demand policy support: social change and the structural underpinnings of consumer culture in the United States; 8 Finance: an emerging issue in sustainable consumption research; 9 "Beyond-GDP" indicators: changing the economic narrative for a post-consumer society?
  • 10 Consumption, governance, and transitions how reconnecting consumption and production opens up new perspectives for sustainable developmentPart IV Social change toward post-consumer society; 11 Conclusion and outlook; Index.