‘One city block at a time’: Researching and cultivating green transformations
A growing interest in environmental issues within the community has seen
suburban backyards, streets, houses and curbsides
become sites of experimentation around sustainable
lifestyle practices. Drawing upon research on various grassroots green
initiatives around inner urban and suburban
Melbourne, this article discusses what the rise of these kinds of
lifestyle politics
might mean for conceptualizing scale, citizenship,
and social change in the contemporary moment. Drawing on social practice
theory and its focus on the embodied, habitual and
more-than-human elements of everyday practices, the article argues that green
suburban
lifestyle initiatives such as ‘permablitzes’ are
transformational in a number of ways and that they embody, materialize
and
perform broader sets of changes in people’s lives
as they seek to switch from practices of consumption to a focus on
self-sufficiency
and making do.
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