The Power of Community
How Community-Based Organizations Stimulate Sustainable Lifestyles Among Participants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12165221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucie Middlemi (0000-0001-5185-2033, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1157-1173 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society & Natural Resources (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-1920 • E-ISSN: 1521-0723 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08941920.2010.518582 |
| OpenAlex | W1987795901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 16 |
There has been increasing interest in community responses to sustainability problems in the United Kingdom, following an emerging movement in which community-based organizations attempt to influence their participants' lifestyles. Such initiatives are at home in practice theory, as they implicitly recognize the connections between practices, people, institutions, and places. In this article I present a model of how community-based organizations stimulate sustainable lifestyles among their participants. This model emerged from an empirical study on this phenomenon, and from a reading of the practice theory literature. My work represents a development in the use of practice theory within sustainable consumption, as it looks at an empirical context, that of conscious lifestyle change, which is not usually explored using this theory. In doing so it both extends the potential for application of the theory within sustainable consumption studies, and further characterizes some key concepts within the theory
Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Management · Political science · Power (physics · Practice theory · Public relations · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable community · Sustainable consumption · Sustainable development · Theory of planned behavior · Work (physics · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Taking stock of the local impacts of community owned renewable energy
Building individual and collective mitigative capacities for carbon-neutral community through lifestyle transition
The transformation of sustainable lifestyle practices in ecoclubs
Modeling the evolution of community structure by the dynamic network analysis
Nature, nurture, (Neo-)nostalgia? Back-casting for a more socially and environmentally sustainable post-Covid future
The Collective Meaning of “Sense of Home
The double-edged sword of grant funding
Urban Communities for Transition toward Sustainable Behavior in the Context of Authoritarianism
Incomers’ leading ‘community-led’ sustainability initiatives
It’s all about community
Critical sustainable consumption
How long can we keep doing this? Sustainability as a strictly temporal concept
Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts
Empowering Sustainability
Exploring the links between community-based governance and sustainable energy use
Unleashing or domesticating the vitality of citizens' initiatives? The paradoxical relationship between governments and citizens' initiatives in the energy transition
City dweller aspirations for cities of the future
Prosaic state governance of community low carbon transitions
The politics of community
Individualised or participatory? Exploring late-modern identity and sustainable development
The practice turn in contemporary theory
Modernity and self-identity
The theory of structuration
Modernity and Self-Identity
The Logic of Practice
Mind the Gap
Mind in the Gap
Environmental citizenship
Sustainable Consumption
Individualization
Consumption and Theories of Practice
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
A Theory of Structure
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |