Beyond rhetoric
The Possibilities of and for 'Sustainable Lifestyles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4828126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Evans (0000-0001-7093-5694, University of Manchester, corresponding author), David Evans (0000-0001-7258-3485), Wokje Abrahamse (0000-0002-8223-8359, University of Surrey) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 486-502 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644010903007369 |
| OpenAlex | W2119821337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 24 |
Discourses of ‘sustainable lifestyles’ and ‘lifestyle change’ are becoming ubiquitous in media, comment and environmental policy, but there is ambiguity about what this means and entails. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork exploring ‘sustainable lifestyles’ from the perspective of persons who identify themselves as living, or attempting to live, in more sustainable and/or environmentally friendly ways, the tensions, constraints, rewards and opportunities detailed in respondents’ narratives are described. ‘Sustainable lifestyles’ are far more complex than the rhetoric would suggest. They need to be understood in relation to wider social and cultural processes. ‘Structural changes’ to enable ‘lifestyle choices’ that are conducive to sustainability are needed, but it is important to look beyond ‘sustainability’ (however defined) and appeal to other agendas and identities in order to motivate pro-environmental behaviour
Ambiguity · Appeal · Business · Environmental ethics · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Rhetoric · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable community · Sustainable Living · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Law · Ecology
Values, identity and pro-environmental behaviour
Tools for a new climate conversation
Antropologiczne otwarcie na postantropocentryzm. Sprawczość bytów poza-ludzkich w procesie ekologizacji wiedzy
Activating transrelational ethnography. Interweaves of the field in the process of energy transition
The decarbonisation of Europe powered by lifestyle changes
The influence of key opinion leaders on consumers' purchasing intention regarding green fashion products
Competing climate imaginaries
Tipping dynamics of consumer lifestyle change
Ce que la sobriété veut dire
Unravelling the Threads
Transitions on the home front
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change
Navigating social and material challenges of sustainable consumption among the Chinese urban middle class
Changing household consumption to address climate change
Green Consumption and Social Change
The discourse of minimalist lifestyle
Actors in transition
Ecological habitus intergenerationally reproduced
Examining the conflict and interconnectedness of young people’s ideas about environmental issues, responsibility and action
Could working less reduce pressures on the environment? A cross-national panel analysis of OECD countries, 1970–2007
A framework for measuring and modelling low-carbon lifestyles
Developing sustainability-oriented values
Fractures’ in food practices
Completing the Circuit
Going Green
Consuming conventions
Questioning the virtues of pro-environmental behaviour research
Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability
Thrifty, green or frugal
Towards a sustainable future
Lifestyle practices and pro-environmental technology
Eco-labels, conspicuous conservation and moral licensing
Before She Was Born, I Ate Cheerios and Beer for Dinner”
Democracy's Myopia
I'm not a tree hugger, I'm just like you
Household food waste
Becoming a (green) identity entrepreneur
Emotional Landscapes of Risk
A social life for carbon? Commodification, markets and care
Making matter great again? Ecofeminism, new materialism and the everyday turn in environmental politics
Debating the proper pace of life
Rethinking green entrepreneurship - Fluid narratives of the green economy
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Long Interview
Influences on Attitude-Behavior Relationships
Incentives, Morality, Or Habit? Predicting Students’ Car Use for University Routes With the Models of Ajzen, Schwartz, and Triandis
Who recycles and when? A review of personal and situational factors
A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation
Effects of values, problem awareness, and personal norm on willingness to reduce personal car use
Explaining Proenvironmental Intention and Behavior by Personal Norms and the Theory of Planned Behavior 1
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Ethnographic Interview
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Ethnography
Re-thinking the `Good Life`
Green Consumption
Sustainable Consumption
Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption
Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
The Constitution of Society
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |