Grey greening: quiet sustainability at auto salvage yards

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/49777513:23330/22:43970252

Result on the web

<a href="https://geografie.cz/media/pdf/geo_2022127010055.pdf" target="_blank" >https://geografie.cz/media/pdf/geo_2022127010055.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2022127010055" target="_blank" >10.37040/geografie2022127010055</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Grey greening: quiet sustainability at auto salvage yards

Original language description

Building upon my long-term ethnographic research at an auto salvage yard in Central Bohemia, I attempt to reveal through the lens of the ‘quiet sustainability’ concept that ‘greening’ can also be achieved quietly by the grey economy of breaking cars. The case of auto salvage yards shows that sustainability rises even through the yearning for profit. At auto salvage yards, economic meets eco-logic. Therefore, the unintentional sustainability reached by breakers opens space for debate on sustainability reached through the profit motive. While quiet practices leading towards sustainability might not lead to large-scale environmental or social changes, reaching sustainability through profitable practices seems to be a much more appealing way for many, with considerably larger pro-environmental consequences. Hence, these practices could provide inspiration for strategies towards a more sustainable society.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-06759S" target="_blank" >GA20-06759S: Waste Regime at a Crossroad: Divergent Trajectories of Things, Cars, and Electronics</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geografie

ISSN

1212-0014

e-ISSN

2571-421X

Volume of the periodical

127

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

55-73

UT code for WoS article

000766240700003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85128075987