Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World

Name: Things Worth Keeping
Author: Christine Harold

Auteur: Christine Harold

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Christine Harold Esarey, Ashley

Co-auteur: Gold, Thomas B.

Engels
Paperback
9780816677245
09 juni 2020
256 pagina's

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A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste. Yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations looking to sell us more stuff. In Things Worth Keeping, Christine Har

A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste

Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste. Yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations looking to sell us more stuff. In Things Worth Keeping, Christine Harold investigates the attachments we form to the objects we buy, keep, and discard, and explores how these attachments might be marshaled to create less wasteful practices and balance our consumerist and ecological impulses.

Although all economies produce waste, no system generates as much or has become so adept at hiding its excesses as today’s mode of global capitalism. This book suggests that managing the material excesses of our lives as consumers requires us to build on, rather than reject, our desire for and attraction to objects. Increasing environmental awareness on its own will be ineffective at reversing ecological devastation, Harold argues, unless it is coupled with a more thorough understanding of how and why we love the things that imbue our lives with pleasure, meaning, and utility.

From Marie Kondo’s method for decluttering that asks whether the things in our lives “spark joy” to the advent of emotionally durable design, which seeks to reduce consumption and waste by increasing the meaningfulness of the relationship between user and product, Harold explores how consumer psychology and empathetic design can transform our perception of consumer products from disposable to interconnected. An urgent call for rethinking consumerism, Things Worth Keeping shows that by recognizing our responsibility for the things we produce, we can become better stewards of the planet.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 juni 2020
Aantal pagina's: 256
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Hoofdauteur: Christine Harold
Tweede Auteur: Esarey, Ashley
Co Auteur: Gold, Thomas B.
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Minnesota Press

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 38 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 165 g

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