Consumption practices, civic engagement, community making

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Paola Parmiggiani
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/132
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 97-112 File size 307 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2013-132008
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We are witnessing in recent years new forms of participation development involving consumption practices and everyday life, by means of which civil society is responding to the devastating effects of the current crisis, not only economic and financial but also social, environmental and cultural. A vast and varied range of new methods of social actors active involvement, focused on shared patterns of consumption social and environmental well-being-oriented, and through which the crisis is seen and experienced as an opportunity for change, as a chance to recover from it and get different and better. The author focuses on the forms of civic engagement mediated by consumption practices that result in the local communities making, by disclosing, in the last part of the paper, the experience of a local energy community, still developing, aimed at activating a process of active involvement of the inhabitants in the care and management of energy consumption in the area, meant as common good.

Keywords: Consumption practices, civic engagement, social capital, common good, community, sustainability

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Paola Parmiggiani, Pratiche di consumo, civic engagement, creazione di comunità in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 132/2013, pp 97-112, DOI: 10.3280/SL2013-132008