Project duration: 
2017 - 2020

The aim of this project is to examine local responses to global environmental problems (climate change, soil degradation, food quality, etc.) in terms of social movements and lifestyles. The research activity is carried out within the framework of the Strategy AV 21 Global Conflicts and Local Contexts (http://globalnikonflikty.cz).

The activity focuses on the study of sustainable lifestyle in the Czech Republic in the context of globalization and global climate change. Sustainable lifestyles and sustainable consumption are analyzed in the global framework of production and consumption and their environmental and social impacts. The researcher is looking for examples of good practice applicable to society.

Sustainable lifestyle is understood not only as sustainable, ethical or green consumption, but is also linked to self-reliance and do-it-yourself practice. Their construction and ways of implementing in various areas of lifestyle (e.g. food provisioning or production of daily necessities) at the individual and community level are studied.
Furthermore, environmental 'lifestyle movements', communities and initiatives that focus on sustainability and self-reliance are analysed: Transition movement, back-to-the-land movement, permaculture, food sovereignty, ecocommunity and zero-waste movements. These lifestyle movements can be defined as groups that consciously and actively promote lifestyle as the main means of social change.
Research is based on media analysis (both alternative and mainstream), participant observation and interviews with people who promote and/or live a sustainable lifestyle.
 

 

 

Principal investigator: 
Topics: 
value orientations
identity
kultura
urban and rural studies
family
health
životní prostředí
lifestyle
Grant agency: 
other

Publikace vydané v rámci projektu (celkem 5, zobrazeno 1 - 5)

Kolářová, Marta
Téma:
životní prostředí, lifestyle
Oddělení:
Local and regional studies
Typ publikace:
Public event or educational activity
Kolářová, Marta

The paper focuses on Czech alternative lifestyles and subcultures that cannot be defined by music and youth, hence using the concept of cultural creatives (Ray – Anderson 2000). This subculture has been formed by a convergence of social movements and countercultures since the 1960s.

Téma:
gender, identity, kultura, media, religion and religiosity, parenting, education, životní prostředí, lifestyle
Oddělení:
Local and regional studies
Typ publikace:
Peer-reviewed journal article
Kolářová, Marta

This paper focuses on a grassroots community movement address-ing climate change: the transnational Transition (Towns) movement. While this movement has mainly spread to Anglophone countries, it is almost en-tirely absent from Eastern Europe and the Czech Republic in particular.

Téma:
klimatická změna, civil society, životní prostředí
Oddělení:
Local and regional studies
Typ publikace:
Article with impact factor
Kolářová, Marta

The article focuses on self-reliance and DIY in eco-gardens. Self-reliance does not only includes food self-provisioning, but also housing, energy, making objects for everyday use, healing and homeschooling.

 

 

Téma:
housing, klimatická změna, urban and rural studies, consumption, životní prostředí, lifestyle
Oddělení:
Local and regional studies
Typ publikace:
Public event or educational activity
Kolářová, Marta

This book examines collective and individual forms of lifestyle politics and political consumerism in the environmental sphere. Lifestyle politics is about how citizens become involved in politics through their everyday decision-making and it includes the ethically, morally, and politically motivated choices they make about consumption, transport, energy use, and other lifestyle habits.

Téma:
gender, identity, urban and rural studies, civil society, životní prostředí, lifestyle
Oddělení:
Local and regional studies
Typ publikace:
Monograph