The Rise of Lifestyle Activism From New Left to Occupy
This book explores changes in the values and ideas of a large part of the political Left in recent decades. The author identifies that a questioning of the merits of economic growth; an ideal of environmental sustainability overriding the old radical visi
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The Rise of Lifestyle Activism
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
The Rise of Lifestyle Activism From New Left to Occupy
Nikos Sotirakopoulos Loughborough University United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-55102-3 ISBN 978-1-137-55103-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55103-0
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Acknowledgments
There are various people to whom I owe a debt for completing this book. First of all, to my parents, who taught me the importance of ideas and good education, and who helped me pursue it. Friends and loved ones have also been generous in their encouragement and appreciation throughout the past few years. Since the book is related to my PhD work, I would like to thank my supervisor Chris Rootes, who has been more than a mentor to me. The whole community at the University of Kent has been conducive to the generation of good ideas; but special thanks are due to those who trusted me with the various jobs that helped me make ends meet. Also, I need to thank the people in the Sociology team at Loughborough University, who, by being excellent colleagues, made the final months of the writing of this book as comfortable as possible for me. I am also indebted to the research participants at Occupy London, who generously offered me their time and their thoughts. Also, many thanks to Gerard Casey for being generous with his time and reading a draft on a very short notice. The ideas in this book are a product of my interaction with people who took me out of my intellectual comfort zone and made m
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