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From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills

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  • Chris Gibson
  • Lesley Head
  • Chantel Carr

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Households within affluent countries are increasingly prominent in climate change adaptation research; meanwhile, social and cultural research has sought to render more complex the dynamics of domesticity and home spaces. Both bodies of work are nevertheless framed within a view of the future that is recognizable from the present, a future reached via socioecological change that is gradual rather than transformative or catastrophic. In this article, we acknowledge the agency of extreme biophysical forces and ask what everyday household life might be like in an unstable future significantly different from the present. We revisit our own longitudinal empirical research examining household sustainability and reinterpret key results in a more volatile frame influenced by political ecological work on disasters. We seek to move beyond incremental to transformative conceptions of change and invert vulnerability as capacity. Vulnerability and capacity are contingent temporally and spatially and experienced intersubjectively. The resources for survival are ultimately social and therefore compel closer scrutiny of, among other things, household life.

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  • Chris Gibson & Lesley Head & Chantel Carr, 2015. "From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 105(2), pages 416-424, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:105:y:2015:i:2:p:416-424
    DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.973008
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    2. Dydia DeLyser, 2022. "“Writing's intimate spatialities: Drawing ourselves to our writing in self-caring practices of loveâ€," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 54(2), pages 405-412, March.
    3. D. Liliana González-Hernández & Raúl A. Aguirre-Gamboa & Erik W. Meijles, 2023. "The role of climate change perceptions and sociodemographics on reported mitigation efforts and performance among households in northeastern Mexico," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 1853-1875, February.
    4. Stephanie Toole & Natascha Klocker & Lesley Head, 2016. "Re-thinking climate change adaptation and capacities at the household scale," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 135(2), pages 203-209, March.
    5. Ronlyn Duncan & Melissa Robson-Williams & Graeme Nicholas & James A. Turner & Rawiri Smith & David Diprose, 2018. "Transformation Is ‘Experienced, Not Delivered’: Insights from Grounding the Discourse in Practice to Inform Policy and Theory," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-20, September.
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    7. Zofia Patora-Wysocka & Łukasz Sułkowski, 2019. "Sustainable Incremental Organizational Change—A Case of the Textile and Apparel Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-27, February.

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