Title of the new book: Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society: Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications
Authors: Halina Szejnwald Brown, Clark University, USA, Maurie Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Philip Vergragt, Clark University, USA
Introduction:
Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society aims to develop more complete appreciation of the relevant processes of social change and to identify effective interventions that could enable a transition to supersede consumer society. Bringing together leading interdisciplinary experts on social change, the book identifies and analyzes several ongoing small- and modest-scale social experiments. Possibilities for macro-scale change from the interlinked perspectives of culture, economics, finance, and governance are then explored.
Table of contents:
- I. Consumption and Social Change: An Introductory Discussion and Synthetic Framework
- Introduction, Halina Szejnwald Brown
- II. Niches of Social Innovation
- The New Sharing Economy: Enacting the Ecohabitus
- Toward a More Solidaristic Sharing Economy: Examples from Switzerland
- Social Change at the Nexus of Consumption and Politics: A Case Study of Local Food Movements
- Institutionalization Processes in Transformative Social Innovation: Capture Dynamics in the Social Solidarity Economy and Basic Income Initiatives
- Consumption and Social Change: Sustainable Lifestyles in Times of Economic Crisis
- III. Post-consumerist Transitions
- Learning from History: When “Gestures of Change” Demand Policy Support
- Finance: An Emerging Issue in Sustainable Consumption Research
- Beyond “GDP” Indicators: Changing the Economic Narrative for a Post-consumerist Society?
- Consumption, Governance, and Transitions: How Reconnecting Consumption and Production Opens Up New Perspectives for Sustainable Development
- IV. Social Change Toward Post-consumer Society
- Conclusion and Outlook
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