Confronting consumption/
edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.
- London: The MIT Press, 2002.
- 382 p.
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.