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Buying Time and Getting By provides a detailed account of the voluntary simplicity movement, which took off in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The concept of voluntary simplicity encompasses both self-change aimed at bringing personal practice into alignment with ecological values and cultural change that rejects consumerist values and careerism. While simple livers struggle with self-change, they work toward the broader goals of a sustainable global environment, sustainable communities, increased equality in access to resources, and economies aimed at human quality of life rather than profit. Author Mary Grigsby looks inside the movement at the daily lives of participants and includes their own accounts of their efforts. She also uses reflexive empirical analysis to explore race, class, and gender in relation to the movement. The influence of the dominant culture and institutionalized power in shaping the movement are balanced with the importance of participants' dynamic identity work.
Voluntary simplicity movement. --- Back-to-simplicity movement --- Simplicity movement --- VS movement --- Social movements --- Simplicity. --- Conduct of life
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"Kyle Chayka is one of our sharpest cultural observers. After spending years covering minimalist trends for leading publications, he now delves beneath this lifestyle's glossy surface, seeking better ways to claim the time and space we crave. He shows that our longing for less goes back further than we realize. His search leads him to the philosophical and spiritual origins of minimalism, and to the stories of artists such as Agnes Martin and Donald Judd; composers such as John Cage and Julius Eastman; architects and designers; visionaries and misfits. As Chayka looks anew at their extraordinary lives and explores the places where they worked--from Manhattan lofts to the Texas high desert and the back alleys of Kyoto--he reminds us that what we most require is presence, not absence. The result is an elegant new synthesis of our minimalist desires and our profound emotional needs"--
Philosophy and psychology of culture --- General ethics --- Simplicity --- Minimal design --- Minimal art --- Minimal architecture --- Voluntary simplicity movement --- Back-to-simplicity movement --- Simplicity movement --- VS movement --- Social movements --- Minimalism (Architecture) --- Minimalism in architecture --- Minimalist architecture --- Architecture --- Art, Minimal --- Minimalism (Art) --- Minimalist art --- Systematic painting --- Art, Abstract --- Art, Modern --- Minimalism (Design) --- Minimalist design --- Design --- Conduct of life --- 72.039 --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960
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