Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia

Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-905-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lockyer, Joshua

Veteto, James R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, Figures, and Maps

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Prologue

E.N. Anderson

Introduction: Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: An Introduction

Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto

 

PART I: BIOREGIONALISM

Chapter 1. Growing a Life-Place Politics

Peter Berg   

Chapter 2. On Bioregionalism and Watershed Consciousness

James J. Parsons

Chapter 3. Growing an Oak: An Ethnography of Ozark Bioregionalism

Brian C. Campbell

Chapter 4. The Adirondack Semester: An Integrated Approach to Cultivating Bioregional Knowledge & Consciousness

Steve Alexander and Baylor Johnson

Further Readings on Bioregionalism

PART II: PERMACULTURE

Chapter 5. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Permaculture: Moving Theory and Practice Toward Sustainability

James R. Veteto and Joshua Lockyer

Chapter 6.  Weeds or Wisdom? Permaculture in the Eye of the Beholder on Latvian Eco-Health Farms

Guntra Aistara

Chapter 7.  Permaculture in the City: Ecological Habitus and the Distributed Ecovillage

Randolph Haluza-Delay and Ron Berezan

Chapter 8.  Culture, Permaculture and Experimental Anthropology in the Houston Foodshed

Bob Randall

Chapter 9.  Putting Permaculture Ethics to Work: Commons Thinking, Progress and Hope

Katy Fox

Chapter 10. Permaculture in Practice: Low Impact Development in Britain

Jenny Pickerill

Chapter 11. In Search of Global Sustainability and Justice: How Permaculture Can Contribute to Development Policy

Aili Pyhälä

Further Readings on Permaculture

PART III: ECOVILLAGES

Chapter 12. From Islands to Networks: The History and Future of the Ecovillage Movement

Jonathan Dawson

Chapter 13. Creating Alternative Political Ecologies through the Construction of Ecovillages and Ecovillagers in Colombia

Brian Burke and Beatriz Arjona

Chapter 14. Globalizing the Ecovillage Ideal: Networks of Neighborliness, Seeds of Hope

Todd LeVasseur   

Chapter 15.  Academia’s Hidden Curriculum and Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability Education

Daniel Greenberg  

Chapter 16. Ecovillages and Capitalism: Building Sustainable Communities within an Unsustainable Context

Ted Baker

Further Readings on Ecovillages

Über Autor(innen)

Lockyer, Joshua
Joshua Lockyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Arkansas Tech University where he is co-creating a bioregionally-based undergraduate anthropology program.

Veteto, James R.
James R. Veteto is Assistant Professor and faculty member of the Cherokee Studies Program in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Western Carolina University. He is Executive Director of the Appalachian Institute for Mountain Studies and Director of the Southern Seed Legacy.

Joshua Lockyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Arkansas Tech University where he is co-creating a bioregionally-based undergraduate anthropology program.