#1400503 in eBooks 2012-02-10 2012-02-10File Name: B002RDDXNE11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Promising title; piece-meal textBy Jessica Carew KraftIf you're looking for a dialectical response to the nauseatingly pro-business wing of the sustainability movement, you'll find many gems in this book. The familiar cadences of postmodern critique of contemporary culture--including a rehashing of the Truman Show's hyperreality, and discourse on malls and big box retail as "junkspace"-- are punctuated by truly original perspectives on the parThe idea of "sustainability" has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In Hijacking Sustainability, Adrian Parr describes how this has happened: how the goals of an environmental movement came to be mediated by corporate interests, government, and the military. Parr argues that the more popular sustainable development becomes, the mo...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Hijacking Sustainability (MIT Press) | . I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
