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Vannini, Phillip.
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Sustainable living.
Self-reliant living.
Alternative lifestyles.
Simplicity.
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Vannini, Phillip.
Sustainable living.
Self-reliant living.
Alternative lifestyles.
Simplicity.
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Off
the
grid
:
re-assembling
domestic
life
/ Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart.
by
Vannini, Phillip.
Routledge, 2015.
Call #:
640.286 V269o
Subjects
Sustainable living.
Self-reliant living.
Alternative lifestyles.
Simplicity.
Series
Innovative ethnographies.
ISBN:
9780415854337
0415854334
9780415854320
0415854326
Description:
xiv, 234 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
Other authors:
Taggart, Jonathan.
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