Buying time and getting by : the voluntary simplicity movement /
"Buying Time and Getting By provides a detailed account of the voluntary simplicity movement, which took off in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The concept of voluntary simplicity encompasses both self-change aimed at bringing personal practice into alignment with ecologica...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
©2004.
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| Loạt: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252527 |
| Tóm tắt: | "Buying Time and Getting By provides a detailed account of the voluntary simplicity movement, which took off in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The concept of voluntary simplicity encompasses both self-change aimed at bringing personal practice into alignment with ecological values and cultural change that rejects consumerist values and careerism. While simple livers struggle with self-change, they work toward the broader goals of a sustainable global environment, sustainable communities, increased equality in access to resources, and economies aimed at human quality of life rather then profit. Author Mary Grigsby looks inside the movement at the daily lives of participants and includes their own accounts of their efforts. She also uses reflexive empirical analysis to explore race, class, and gender in relation to the movement. The influence of the dominant culture and institutionalized power in shaping the movement are balanced with the importance of participants' dynamic identity work."--Jacket |
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| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) |
| Định dạng: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index. |
| số ISBN: | 1417575824 9781417575824 0791459993 9780791459997 0791460002 9780791460009 9780791485521 0791485528 |