In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in everyday life. This book focuses on sustainable materialism, and examines the political and social motivations of activists and movement groups involved in this growing and expanding practice.

Part One: Introducing Sustainable Materialism 1: An Introduction to Sustainable Materialism Part Two: Political Motivations for Sustainable Materialism 2: From Postmaterialism to Sustainable Materialism 3: Environmental and Social Justice in Sustainable Materialist Movements 4: Material Practice and Resistance to Power 5: Sustainability and the Politics of Materialist Action Part Three: Innovations and Conclusions 6: New Directions and Virtues in Sustainable Materialist Movements 7: Conclusion: From Sustainable Materialism to System Change

The first major work to explore the political motivations of new materialist movements Presents an empirically-grounded framework for understanding a range of movements, from food justice, to community energy, to sustainable fashion Offers a unique variety of perspectives, using extensive qualitative research based on interviews of 100 activists

David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, Payne-Scott Professor, and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. His main theoretical interests are in environmental and climate justice, climate adaptation and resilience, and environmental movements and the practices of everyday life - what he terms sustainable materialism. Professor Schlosberg's more applied work includes public perceptions of adaptation and resilience, the health and social impacts of climate change, and responses to food insecurity. His previous authored, co-authored, or co-edited books with Oxford include Defining Environmental Justice, The Climate-Challenged Society, and The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Professor Schlosberg has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, Australian National University, Princeton University, University of Washington, and UC Santa Cruz, among others. Luke Craven is a Research Fellow in the Public Service Research Group at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Dr Craven's research focuses on developing new tools to understand and address complex policy challenges. He works with a range of public sector organisations to adapt and apply systems frameworks to support policy design, implementation, and evaluation. He is known for developing the System Effects methodology, which is widely used to analyse complex causal relationships in participatory and qualitative data. He is also involved in number of collaborative projects that are developing innovative solutions to complex policy challenges, which includes work focused on food insecurity, health inequality, and climate resilience. Dr Craven holds a PhD in Political Science at the University of Sydney, where he remains affiliated with the Sydney Environment Institute, and the Charles Perkins Centre.

The first major work to explore the political motivations of new materialist movements Presents an empirically-grounded framework for understanding a range of movements, from food justice, to community energy, to sustainable fashion Offers a unique variety of perspectives, using extensive qualitative research based on interviews of 100 activists