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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972332503321

Titolo

The environmental politics of sacrifice / / edited by Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2010

ISBN

9786612737015

9780262288781

0262288788

9781282737013

1282737015

9780262289603

0262289601

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ManiatesMichael

MeyerJohn M

Disciplina

363.7/0561

Soggetti

Environmental policy

Sacrifice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Must we sacrifice? confronting the politics of sacrifice in an ecologically full world / John M. Meyer and Michael Maniates -- Asking the right questions -- A democratic politics of sacrifice? / John M. Meyer -- Sacrifice in an age of comfort / Paul Wapner -- Freedom, values, and sacrifice : overcoming obstacles to environmentally sustainable behavior / Cheryl Hall -- Seeing sacrifice in everyday life -- Ordinary and extraordinary sacrifices : religion, everyday life, and environmental practice / Anna Peterson -- The sacred and the profane in the ecological politics of sacrifice / Karen Litfin -- Consumer sovereignty, heroic sacrifice : two insidious concepts in an endlessly expansionist economy / Thomas Princen -- Parental sacrifice as atonement for future climate change / Sudhir Chella Rajan -- Obstacles and opportunities -- Self-interest, sacrifice and climate change : (re- )framing the British Columbia carbon tax / Shane Gunster -- Civic virtue and sacrifice in a suburban nation / Peter Cannavò -- Bikes, sticks,



carrots / Justin Williams -- Intelligent design? : unpacking geoengineering's hidden sacrifices / Simon Nicholson -- Struggling with sacrifice : take back your time and right2vacation.org / Michael Maniates -- Conclusion : sacrifice and a new environmental politics / Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer.

Sommario/riassunto

This work provides an argument that the idea of sacrifice, with all its political baggage, opens new paths to environmental sustainability.