ABSTRACT
A climate of contradictions This edited collection is concerned with the lifestyle and consumption practices of ordinary people and their implications for environmentalism. Discussions of environmental issues in South and East Asia tend to be primarily framed as largescale problems of state and global governance, often in turn linked to market mechanisms. In contrast, this book’s concerns lie with more everyday experiences of and engagement with sustainability, including a focus on forms of everyday activism and “experiments” in sustainable living. These alternative practices and discourses are of course invariably shaped by larger state and civic structures (although in some cases grassroots interventions may have a “trickle up” impact on such structures), but they also can represent a significant critical counterpoint to state logics of environmental governance.
