Building Something Better : : Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change / / Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, Stephanie A. Malin.
As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and peopl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, Society, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Part I: where we’re at and why
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A People’s Sociology
- 3 Failing People and the Planet: Neoliberal Economics and the Erasure of Difference
- Part II: building better world
- 4 Human Beings, Not Humans Buying: Trends in Modern Environmentalism, and How Communities Are Reimagining Collectives
- 5 Democratizing the Commons by Building Communities
- 6 More than the Market: Practicing Social and Ecological Regeneration
- 7 Conclusion: Building Something Better
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS