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This book brings together a number of recent case studies from the broad field of sustainable consumption. As they evaluate the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption, these essays can also be categorized into a range of different societal perspectives, from the individual to collectivities.The first chapters explore the personal consumer, discussing how individual consumptive choices relate to lifestyle and culture, and how choices are reflected in the carbon footprints of consumers and vehicles like the automobile. The ongoing phenomenon of outsourcing production and thus the emissions of cities--in more affluent countries--and the resulting "low-carbon illusion" of cities is analysed, as is the inefficiency of density policies to mitigate these emissions.The volume then moves on to consider community-based resource sharing, environmental entrepreneurs, spillover effects and learning possibilities. Also investigated are intentional communities born of alternative economic thought, suburban neighborhoods, and questions of whether cultural activities can be considered within the field of sustainability in lower-income city outskirts.The third part of the book analyzes different social movements in sustainability, as well as the limits of policy, government regulation, and the potential for mainstreaming sustainable consumption.In each chapter, scholars explore sustainability, from the individual to the collective, in order to improve understandings of consumer lifestyles and provide critiques of the processes of societal transition toward more sustainable human-environmental life.

Est-ce que le Québec subit un processus de militarisation sociétale ? La question peut paraître farfelue, puisqu'il est couramment accepté que les Québécois partagent des valeurs antimilitaristes, voire pacifistes. Dans cet article, les auteurs examinent rigoureusement la question. Ils dressent d'abord une typologie des attitudes potentiellement partagées par les Québécois en matière de sécurité internationale. Il vérifient ensuite, à l'aide de dizaines de sondages d'opinion publique réalisés au cours des 25 dernières années, la nature et l'ampleur des préférences québécoises vis-à-vis des enjeux de politique étrangère et de défense. Il se dégage de l'article un portrait, plutôt paradoxal, selon lequel les Québécois maintiennent des préférences durablement anti-impérialistes, tout en exprimant de fortes opinions militaristes.

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