Putting Foucault to work on the environment: Exploring proenvironmental behaviour change as a form of discipline

Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment

Volumn , Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Hargreaves, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discipline; Ethnography; Foucault; Pro environmental behaviour change; Sustainable consumption

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77955475325     PISSN: 09678875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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