Introduction
Chapter 1: Is Bigger Really Better?
Chapter 2: What is the Tiny House Movement?
Chapter 3: When Less Equals More
Chapter 4: Challenging our Consumer Lifestyle
Chapter 5: Criticisms and Critiques of the Tiny House Movement
Chapter 6: From NIMBY to YIMBY!
Appendix
Bibliography
Tracey Harris is assistant professor of sociology at Cape Breton University.
In The Tiny House Movement, sociologist Harris (Cape Breton Univ.,
Canada) provides a sociological account of the tiny house movement
and why homeowners are choosing to live in small spaces. Harris
draws not only on interviews with those presently living in such
spaces, those constructing them, and those promoting their value
but also on personal experience: she lived in several tiny houses
with her family.
Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.
*CHOICE*
This is an example of the public sociology we need more of:
interdisciplinary and theoretically informed, yet eminently
readable and accessible to a broad audience. Harris offers up a
powerful critique of how our existing homes are ecologically and
socially unsustainable but also celebrates how everyday folk are
successfully challenging expectations of what a home can be.
*Joseph G. Moore, Douglas College*
An inspiring depiction of the tiny house movement, Tracey Harris
shows tiny house building and living as fun and creative
problem-solving, downsizing 'stuff' as a way of making room for
more experiences, and living small as opportunities for
re-imagining and re-creating community, all while considering
critiques of the privilege involved in making the choice to live
tiny. The Tiny House Movement details contemporary problems with
overconsumption and gives hope to readers as it highlights those
who choose to enjoy 'just enough.'
*Elizabeth Cherry, Manhattanville College*
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