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The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262289603
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Environmental Politics of SacrificeDDC classification:
  • 337.142
LOC classification:
  • GE170
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Must We Sacrifice? -- I Asking the Right Questions -- 2 A Democratic Politics of Sacrifice? -- 3 Sacrifi ce in an Age of Comfort -- 4 Freedom, Values, and Sacrifice -- II Seeing Sacrifice in Everyday Life -- 5 Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices -- 6 The Sacred and the Profane in the Ecological Politics of Sacrifice -- 7 Consumer Sovereignty, Heroic Sacrifice -- 8 Parental Sacrifice as Atonement for Future Climate Change -- III Obstacles and Opportunities -- 9 Self-Interest, Sacrifice, and Climate Change -- 10 Civic Virtue and Sacrifice in a Suburban Nation -- 11 Bikes, Sticks, Carrots -- 12 Intelligent Design? -- 13 Struggling with Sacrifice -- 14 Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: An argument that the idea of sacrifice, with all its political baggage, opens new paths to environmental sustainability.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Must We Sacrifice? -- I Asking the Right Questions -- 2 A Democratic Politics of Sacrifice? -- 3 Sacrifi ce in an Age of Comfort -- 4 Freedom, Values, and Sacrifice -- II Seeing Sacrifice in Everyday Life -- 5 Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices -- 6 The Sacred and the Profane in the Ecological Politics of Sacrifice -- 7 Consumer Sovereignty, Heroic Sacrifice -- 8 Parental Sacrifice as Atonement for Future Climate Change -- III Obstacles and Opportunities -- 9 Self-Interest, Sacrifice, and Climate Change -- 10 Civic Virtue and Sacrifice in a Suburban Nation -- 11 Bikes, Sticks, Carrots -- 12 Intelligent Design? -- 13 Struggling with Sacrifice -- 14 Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.

An argument that the idea of sacrifice, with all its political baggage, opens new paths to environmental sustainability.

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