Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice / / ed. by Carl A. Maida, Sam Beck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Afonso, Ana Isabel,; Beck, Sam,; Crivos, Marta,; D’Amico, Linda,; Guerrón Montero, Carla,; Harper, Krista,; Maida, Carl A.,; McKenna, Brian,; Oral, Funda,; Remorini, Carolina,; Rosa Martínez, María,; Schoon, Danielle V.,; Sen, Debarati,; Smith-Nonini, Sandy,; Teves, Laura,; Westra, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Beck, Sam,; Maida, Carl A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)

Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students, as well as policy and community leaders, find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice -- Part 1: Sustaining the Countryside -- 1. Cultivating Sustainability Literacy and Public Engagement in Intag, Ecuador -- 2. Spaces for Transdisciplinary Dialogues on the Relationship between Local Communities and their Environment: The Case of a Rural Community in the Calchaqui Valley (Salta, Argentina) -- 3. Affective Solidarities? Participating in and Witnessing Fair Trade and Women’s Empowerment in Transnational Communities of Practice -- Part 2: Sustainable Urbanism -- 4. Plural Citizenship and Social Inclusion in Brazil’s Urban Communities of Practice -- 5. The Role of Communities of Practice in Urban Rights Activism in Istanbul, Turkey -- 6. Cultivating Civic Ecology: A Photovoice Study with Urban Gardeners in Lisbon, Portugal -- 7. Knowledge Production and Emancipatory Social Movements from the Heart of Globalized Hipsterdom, Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- Part 3: Organizing for Sustainability -- 8. Knowing Sustainability: Building Communities of Practice through Project-Based Learning in Urban Ecology at High Tech High -- 9. Inventing Eco-Cycle A Social Enterprise Approach to Sustainability Education -- 10. Confronting Tyranny in a Public Health Agency: Crafting a ‘Philosophy of Praxis’ into a ‘Community of Resistance’ -- 11. Local Trade and Exchange/Employment Systems (LETS) in Future Eco-sustainable Societies -- Index