The environmental politics of sacrifice /

The environmental politics of sacrifice / edited by Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010. - viii, 343 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Must we sacrifice? confronting the politics of sacrifice in an ecologically full world / John M. Meyer and Michael Maniates -- Asking the right questions -- A democratic politics of sacrifice? / John M. Meyer -- Sacrifice in an age of comfort / Paul Wapner -- Freedom, values, and sacrifice : overcoming obstacles to environmentally sustainable behavior / Cheryl Hall -- Seeing sacrifice in everyday life -- Ordinary and extraordinary sacrifices : religion, everyday life, and environmental practice / Anna Peterson -- The sacred and the profane in the ecological politics of sacrifice / Karen Litfin -- Consumer sovereignty, heroic sacrifice : two insidious concepts in an endlessly expansionist economy / Thomas Princen -- Parental sacrifice as atonement for future climate change / Sudhir Chella Rajan -- Obstacles and opportunities -- Self-interest, sacrifice and climate change : (re- )framing the British Columbia carbon tax / Shane Gunster -- Civic virtue and sacrifice in a suburban nation / Peter Cannav�o -- Bikes, sticks, carrots / Justin Williams -- Intelligent design? : unpacking geoengineering's hidden sacrifices / Simon Nicholson -- Struggling with sacrifice : take back your time and right2vacation.org / Michael Maniates -- Conclusion : sacrifice and a new environmental politics / Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer.

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