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abundance
austerity
Author_Alison Hulme
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de-growth
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frugality
individualism
moralism
scarcity
simplicity
solidarity
thrift
Product details
- ISBN 9781526128836
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book surveys ‘thrift’ through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau. The relationships between thrift and frugality, mindfulness, sustainability, and alternative consumption practices are explained, and connections made between myriad conceptions of thrift and contemporary concerns for how consumer cultures impact scarce resources, wealth distribution, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the book returns the reader to an understanding of thrift as it was originally used - to ‘thrive’ - and attempts to re-cast thrift in more collective, economically egalitarian terms, reclaiming it as a genuinely resistant practice.
Alison Hulme lectures in International Development at the University of Northampton
