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Critical and Just SustainabilitiesI combine cultural and economic sociology, post-colonial theory and social practice theories to examine the cultural politics of everyday green lifestyle practices and mobilizations. I anchor studies of everyday life in broader political-economic analyses of systems of production and consumption.
In this work, I have demonstrated how long-standing and invisibilized cultures of servitude subsidize the sustainable consumption of elite actors, how "performative environmentalism" stigmatizes poverty, and how sustainability is an unfavorable, but unavoidable terrain of struggle for waste pickers. |
Main Publications |
Anantharaman, M., (2024) Performative Environmentalism and the Everyday Legitimation of Climate Coloniality in Confronting Climate Coloniality ed. Sultana, F., Routledge. Pre-print available here.
Anantharaman, M. (2022). Is it sustainable consumption or performative environmentalism?. Consumption and Society, 1(1), 120-143. Available open access here. Anantharaman, M (2021) “Ecological routes to urban inclusion: theorizing ecological citizenship through informal waste work” in Standing out, fitting in, and the consumption of the world: sustainable consumption in a status-conscious world, eds. Isenhour C and Roscoe, P. Cambridge University Press UK Jack, T., Anantharaman, M., Browne, A. (2020) ““Without cleanliness we can't lead the life, no?” cleanliness practices, (in)accessible infrastructures, social (im)mobility and (un)sustainable consumption in Mysore, India” Social & Cultural Geography, 23(6), 814–835. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1820561. Available open access here. Anantharaman, M., Huddart-Kennedy, E. Middlemiss, L., and Bradbury, S. (2019) “Who is represented in community-based sustainable consumption projects, and why does it matter? A constructively critical approach” in Power, Politics and Ideology in Sustainable Consumption Research, eds. Middlemiss, L., Isenhour, C. and Martiskainen, M. Routledge UK. Pre-print available here. Anantharaman, M. (2018) Critical Sustainable Consumption: A research agenda. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 8:553–561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-018-0487-4. Pre-print available here. Anantharaman, M. (2016) Elite and ethical: the defensive distinctions of middle-class bicycling in Bangalore, India. Journal of Consumer Culture. 17 (3), 864-886. http://doi.org/10.1177/146954051663441. Pre-print available here. Anantharaman, M. (2014) Networked ecological citizenships, the new middle classes and the provisioning of sustainable waste management in Bangalore, India. Journal of Cleaner Production 63: 173-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.08.041. Pre-print available here. |
