Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia : : Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages /

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

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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 worl...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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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

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