Kirstin Munro. Ordinary Business: Mundane Economics and the Production of Everyday Life

Kirstin Munro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research.  Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, Munro’s Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, Complicity describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way they get things done into alignment with their environmental values. Because the ability to make changes is constrained by their culture and capitalist society, there are negative consequences and trade-offs involved in these household-level sustainability practices. The households described in this book shed light on the full extent of the trade-offs involved in promoting sustainability at the household level as a solution to environmental problems.