Lifestyle Movements: Exploring the Intersection of Lifestyle and Social Movements

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-20

  Haenfler, Ross ^a   Johnson, Brett ^b   Jones, Ellis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifestyle movements; lifestyles; new social movements; social movements; social responsibility movement; voluntary simplicity movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857345730     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2012.640535     Document Type: Article

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