One city block at a time
Researching and cultivating green transformations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8108538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tania Lewis (0000-0002-2855-5644, RMIT University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-363 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367877913513694 |
| OpenAlex | W2163335873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 32 |
A growing interest in environmental issues within the community has seen suburban backyards, streets, houses and curbsides become sites of experimentation around sustainable lifestyle practices. Drawing upon research on various grassroots green initiatives around inner urban and suburban Melbourne, this article discusses what the rise of these kinds of lifestyle politics might mean for conceptualizing scale, citizenship, and social change in the contemporary moment. Drawing on social practice theory and its focus on the embodied, habitual and more-than-human elements of everyday practices, I argue that green suburban lifestyle initiatives such as ‘permablitzes’ are transformational in a number of ways and that they embody, materialize and perform broader sets of changes in people’s lives as they seek to switch from practices of consumption to a focus on self-sufficiency and making do. Video-ethnography and photography are some of the ways in which I have sought to capture such enactments and, in this article, I discuss the ways in which such combined media methods can enable researchers to both document and participate in the politics and practices of lifestyle transformation. Finally, I conclude with a brief discussion of how such a participatory research agenda might be translated into an environmental planning and policy approach that draws upon and enables the distributed agency, creativity and performative energies of community-led green practices
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Citizen journalism · Citizenship · Consumption (sociology · Creativity · Ethnography · Grassroots · Media studies · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Transformational leadership · Transformative learning · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Grassroots engagement with transition to sustainability
Legacies of a “great simple country” forest transitions, urban greening, and the fallacy of trees as a tool of democratisation
The ecological habitus of Indonesian student environmentalism
Sustainable food, ethical consumption and responsible innovation
Muslim youth environmentalists in Indonesia
Vegetal Agency in Street Tree Stewardship Practices
Social Practices
The Ethics of Waste
Political Virtue and Shopping
Practice-ing behaviour change
Materialising energy and water resources in everyday practices
More than this
Mobilising bodies
Climate change and household dynamics
Routes of Reuse of Second-hand Goods in Melbourne Households
Bins, Bulbs, and Shower Timers
Transforming citizens? Green politics and ethical consumption on lifestyle television
Doing Sensory Ethnography
Geographies of responsibility
Qualitative methods
Globalization Theory
Ethnography and the senses
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society1
Corporeal citizenship
Spatialities of Globalisation
Vibrant Matter
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Testing Powers of Engagement
The New Empiricism
Culture on the Ground
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |