Networked ecological citizenship, the new middle classes and the provisioning of sustainable waste management in Bangalore, India

Anantharaman, Manisha

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.08.041

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“…104 Furthermore, Anantharaman's work in India documents a 'zero-waste community,' brought into being by domestic servants and waste workers, while being claimed as a success by middle-class activists. 105 Appreciating that this community is active rather than latent is the key to understanding community as a form of public. Paterson outlines what we can say about 'public practices around climate change,' 106 starting with two arguments; first, the public is increasingly eroded by the private, and, second, governance responses to climate change require a 'reconstitution of the public sphere' (p. 149).…”

Section: Community and Representationmentioning

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Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

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Middlemiss

Sallu

et al. 2017

WIREs Climate Change

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In a 2011 contribution to this journal, Walker examined the ways that community is routinely employed in carbon governance, suggesting the need for more critical approaches. Here, we characterize an emerging, critical approach to researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts, focusing attention principally on the global north, where this body of research has emerged. This work recognizes communities as sites of contestation, difference, tension, and distinction, in which action on climate change can be designed to meet a range of political and public ends. It aims to uncover the political and social context for community action on climate change, to be alert to the power relations inside and outside of communities, and to the context of neoliberalism, including individualism, the will to quantify, and competition. Furthermore, research in this space is committed to understanding both the lived experience of the messy empirical worlds we encounter, and the potential agency coalescing in community responses to climate change. Much of the work to date, discussed here, has focused on communities working on climate change mitigation in the global north, in which the idea of community as a space for governance is gaining traction. We also comment on the positioning of these arguments in the context of long‐standing debates in the fields of ‘community‐based’ development, natural resource management, and adaptation in the global South. This discussion establishes a foundation from which to progress learning across fields and geopolitical boundaries, furthering critical thinking on ‘community.’ WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e463. doi: 10.1002/wcc.463 This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Social Movements

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Section: Community and Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

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Sallu

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WIREs Climate Change

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“…Social network structures can also be an outcome of environmental activism (Tindall, Cormier, and Diani ). More specifically, researchers find that social networks help to facilitate green lifestyle projects and environmental movement participation by bringing together like‐minded people, sharing locally specific information and best practices, and offering social support (Anantharaman ; Horton ; Kennedy ; Nye and Hargreaves ; Stoddart and Tindall ). For example, Kennedy () finds that environmentally responsible actors share resources and social support within networks embedded in sympathetic neighborhoods.…”

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Social Network Challenges to Reducing Consumption: The Problem of Gift Giving

Lorenzen

2017

Symbolic Interaction

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Social networks are typically associated with recruitment tactics. In this article, I offer an additional perspective on social networks as a constraint to social change and an under-recognized challenge to reducing consumption. I draw on 45 interviews with: voluntary simplifiers, religious environmentalists, and green home owners. Informants, failing to withdraw from gift-giving networks, instead (1) negotiate a reduction in gift giving, (2) green gift giving, and (3) attempt to transform gift giving into a tactic for lifestyle change. Rather than viewing social networks as channels for cultural cohesion, I argue that we need to better conceptualize the way culture and networks are co-constituted by tactics of influence within areas of contention.

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“…Their educational background, additionally, assists them to subjectively differentiate themselves from old, traditional middle classes through their engagement with political debates as well as a broad, eclectic taste in cultural items. Thus, the concept refers to more than just an income group: it comprises social, political, environmental and economic dimensions and likewise operates as a cultural construct combining both tradition and modernity in its ideologies and consumption styles (Anantharaman, 2014;Jayne, 2006).…”

Section: The New Urban Middle Classes and Their Polysemic Rituals Of mentioning

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Coffee people in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam

Ardekani

Rath

2017

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Despite the diversity of consumption and class practices of the new urban middle classes within and between societies, they share some qualities. Focusing on the lifestyles and mentalities of regulars of specialty coffee bars in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam, this study explores common characteristics of this group. Our ethnography suggests that through their everyday consumption practices, coffee people share a set of ethical dispositions and cultural practices among which this article focuses on the metropolitan body, cosmopolitanism and environmentalism.

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Networked ecological citizenship, the new middle classes and the provisioning of sustainable waste management in Bangalore, India

Cited by 50 publications

References 22 publications

Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

Social Network Challenges to Reducing Consumption: The Problem of Gift Giving

Coffee people in Tehran, Glasgow and Amsterdam

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