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What is Voluntary Simplicity

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Sustainable Consumption Experience and Business Models in the Modern World
The lifestyle that rejects high consumer culture, discards a materialistic lifestyle, and minimizes the pursuit of wealth for its own sake in favour of practices that promote simplicity in lifestyle. Voluntary simplicity practices include reducing the number of possessions one owns, relying less on technology and services, and spending less money.
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Minimalism: A Game Changer for Industries
Amritesh (Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India) and Arjinder Kaur (Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India)
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9277-2.ch006
Abstract
Minimalism has become a lifestyle choice for consumers from various cultural backgrounds who are deliberately rejecting the consumerist narratives that drive market-driven lifestyles. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive review of growing trends in minimalism, emphasizing the defining traits of minimalists, the historical origins of minimalism, and the potential risks it poses to deindustrialization. A bibliographic review method is used to address the interconnected concepts within the specified objectives. The study illuminates the global shift in consumer behaviour by examining the increasing embrace of minimalism in different consumer sectors of the economy. The authors highlight the disruptive capacity of minimalism in various industries and recommend further research to plan a systematic degrowth of unsustainable products and match it with the emerging demand for a minimalism-driven lifestyle. In summary, this chapter emphasizes the potential connections among minimalism, health and wellbeing, and environmental sustainability.
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Polarization in Consumer Behavior: The Rise of Minimalism in a Materialist World
Encompasses a broader scope than minimalism, representing a lifestyle that opposes excessive consumption and dependency on material possessions. It involves a conscious reduction in consumer goods and services spending, aligning with simple living and downshifting principles. The core philosophy emphasizes meeting one's needs in the most straightforward and uncomplicated manner possible.
Published in Chapter: Polarization in Consumer Behavior: The Rise of Minimalism in a Materialist World; From: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Consumer Behavior
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Consumer Culture and the Paradox of Choice in an Ambivalent Era of Emancipation of Individual Freedoms
A specific non-ascetic lifestyle and attitude incorporating practices for minimizing the complexity of life. It is usually a response to a materialistic, consumerist, and environmentally and ecologically unsustainable type of consumer life. Voluntary simplicity consists of living richly by frugal means.
Published in Chapter: Consumer Culture and the Paradox of Choice in an Ambivalent Era of Emancipation of Individual Freedoms; From: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Consumer Behavior
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Exploring Consumer Behavior in the Context of Voluntary Simplicity
A lifestyle in which people try to maximize their self-enhancement and self-reliance by developing judgment regarding life priorities and limiting their consumption.
Published in Chapter: Exploring Consumer Behavior in the Context of Voluntary Simplicity; From: Sustainable Consumption Experience and Business Models in the Modern World
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A Literature Review on Sustainable Consumption in the COVID Era
It is a way of life that reduces the unnecessary consumption of material goods and the pursuit of wealth for its own sake.
Published in Chapter: A Literature Review on Sustainable Consumption in the COVID Era; From: Handbook of Research on Building Inclusive Global Knowledge Societies for Sustainable Development
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Restriction of Addictive Shopping Behavior: Toward a More Responsible Consumption
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