id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_w2ldig3hwzhgrekpa2nqjkndbm Lukáš Kala Narratives and Practices of Voluntary Simplicity in the Czech Post-Socialist Context 2017.0 23 .pdf application/pdf 10687 848 59 Many scholars draw on Inglehart's concept of post-materialism and consider voluntary simplicity to be a way of limiting one's consumption in order to free oneself and seek satisfaction in the non-material Inglehart's structural assumption that non-consumption lifestyles like voluntary simplicity only develop in affluent societies and suggest that the Czech keywords: voluntary simplicity, non-consumption lifestyles, theory of postmaterialism, motivations for simplicity, post-socialism are changing the dominant consumer culture, and they regard voluntary simplicity as 'lifestyle activism' [Hatfield 2011] within a movement of like-minded beginnings of this research on non-consumption lifestyles date back to the period of transformation from state socialism to capitalism in the early 1990s, as we Librová's findings call into question the assumption that non-consumption lifestyles emerge in the context of the experience of material abundance and problematise the broad application of Inglehart's theory. issues; everydayness and daily routines (work, leisure, hobbies); the consumption and materiality of the household; social relations; and motivations and beliefs (e.g. political, religious, environmental). ./cache/work_w2ldig3hwzhgrekpa2nqjkndbm.pdf ./txt/work_w2ldig3hwzhgrekpa2nqjkndbm.txt