Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia : : Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages / / ed. by Joshua Lockyer, James R. Veteto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aistara, Guntra A.,; Alexander, Steven M.,; Anderson, E.N.,; Arjona, Beatriz,; Baker, Ted,; Berezan, Ron,; Berg, Peter,; Burke, Brian J.,; Campbell, Brian C.,; Dawson, Jonathan,; Fox, Katy,; Greenberg, Daniel,; Haluza-DeLay, Randolph,; Johnson, Baylor,; LeVasseur, Todd,; Lockyer, Joshua,; Parsons, James J.,; Pickerill, Jenny,; Pyhälä, Aili,; Randall, Bob,; Veteto, James R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lockyer, Joshua,; Veteto, James R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: An Introduction -- I Bioregionalism -- Chapter One. Growing a Life-Place Politics -- Chapter Two. On Bioregionalism and Watershed Consciousness -- Chapter Three. Growing an Oak An Ethnography of Ozark Bioregionalism -- Chapter Four. The Adirondack Semester: An Integrated Approach to Cultivating Bioregional Knowledge and Consciousness -- Further Readings on Bioregionalism -- II Permaculture -- Chapter Five. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Permaculture: Moving Theory and Practice Toward Sustainability -- Chapter Six. Weeds or Wisdom? Permaculture in the Eye of the Beholder on Latvian Eco-Health Farms -- Chapter Seven. Permaculture in the City: Ecological Habitus and the Distributed Ecovillage -- Chapter Eight. Culture, Permaculture, and Experimental Anthropology in the Houston Foodshed -- Chapter Nine. Putting Permaculture Ethics to Work: Commons Thinking, Progress, and Hope -- Chapter Ten. Permaculture in Practice: Low Impact Development in Britain -- Chapter Eleven. In Search of Global Sustainability and Justice: How Permaculture Can Contribute to Development Policy -- Further Readings on Permaculture -- III Ecovillages -- Chapter Twelve. From Islands to Networks: The History and Future of the Ecovillage Movement -- Chapter Thirteen. Creating Alternative Political Ecologies through the Construction of Ecovillages and Ecovillagers in Colombia -- Chapter Fourteen. Globalizing the Ecovillage Ideal: Networks of Empowerment, Seeds of Hope -- Chapter Fifteen. Academia’s Hidden Curriculum and Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability Education -- Chapter Sixteen. Ecovillages and Capitalism: Creating Sustainable Communities within an Unsustainable Context -- Further Readings on Ecovillages -- Notes on Contributors -- Index