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Tables of Contents for Confronting Consumption
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Confronting Consumption
1
20
Thomas Princen
Michael Maniates
Ken Conca
I The Consumption Angle
21
80
Consumption and Its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology
23
20
Thomas Princen
Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?
43
24
Michael Maniates
Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection
67
34
Jack Manno
II Chains of Consumption
101
96
Distancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback
103
30
Thomas Princen
Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy
133
22
Ken Conca
The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy
155
22
Jennifer Clapp
Environmentally Damaging Consumption: The Impact of American Markets on Tropical Ecosystems in the Twentieth Century
177
20
Richard Tucker
III On the Ground
197
132
In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Volunatary Simplicity Movement
199
38
Michael Maniates
Jamming Culture: Adbusters' Hip Media Campaign against Consumerism
237
18
Marilyn Bordwell
Think Globally, Transact Locally: The Local Currency Movement and Green Political Economy
255
20
Eric Helleiner
Caveat Certificatum: The Case of Forest Certification
275
26
Fred Gale
Citizens or Consumers: The Home Power Movement as a New Practice of Technology
301
16
Jesse Tatum
Conclusion: To Confront Consumption
317
12
Thomas Princen
Michael Maniates
Ken Conca
Notes
329
46
Contributors
375
2
Index
377