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Auteur(s) : Vannini, Phillip
Taggart, Jonathan
Titre(s) : Off the grid [Texte imprimé] : re-assembling domestic life / Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 234 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection : Innovative ethnographies
Lien à la collection : Innovative ethnographies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Off-grid isn't a state of mind. It isn't about someone being out of touch, about
a place that is hard to get to, or about a weekend spent offline. Off-grid is the
property of a building (generally a home but sometimes even a whole town) that is
disconnected from the electricity and the natural gas grid. To live off-grid, therefore,
means having to radically re-invent domestic life as we know it, and this is what
this book is about: individuals and families who have chosen to live in that dramatically
innovative, but also quite old, way of life. This ethnography explores the day-to-day
lives of people in each of Canada's provinces and territories living off the grid.
Vannini and Taggart demonstrate how a variety of people, all with different environmental
constraints, live away from contemporary civilization. The authors also raise important
questions about our social future and whether off-grid living creates an environmentally
and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice. These homes are experimental labs for
our collective future, an intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives,
and a call to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take for granted.
This book is ideal for courses on the environment and sustainability as well as introduction
to sociology and introduction to cultural anthropology courses. "
Sujet(s) : Développement durable -- Canada
Mode de vie durable -- Canada
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415854320 (hardback). - ISBN 0415854326 (hardback). - ISBN 9780415854337
(paperback). - ISBN 0415854334 (paperback). - ISBN 9780203744406 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44265448x
Notice n° :
FRBNF44265448
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