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The Tiny House: Political Ecologies Of Household Water, Energy And Food Practices, Hilton Penfold

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This thesis offers new understandings of tiny household practices in the Australian context, where tiny house living is advocated as a sustainable option. The thesis argues for an understanding tiny household water, energy and food practices informed by the entanglement of macropolitical and micropolitical forces. The research adopts a Political Ecology of the Household analytical framework to conceptualise tiny household practices as simultaneously embedded within political economic, epistemological, and embodied forces. The water, energy and food practices associated with tiny house living are always contingent upon the intersection and mediation of these forces, which comprise everyday life in the tiny …