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Summary:

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:

• Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia; Part 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; Part 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 FarmsChapter 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 PermaculturePart 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 EcovillagesNotes on Contributors; Index

Author/Creator:

Lockyer, Joshua

Contributors:

Veteto, James R.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages [by Lockyer, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia : Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages [by Lockyer, J.] (New York, NY : Berghahn Books,c2013 — ISBN 9780857458797)

Related Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology

Subjects:

Bioregionalism

Ethnobiology

Human ecology

General Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TD171.7 .L384 2013

ISBNs:

9780857458803

OCLC Numbers:

855900063

Other Control Numbers:

EBL1337727 (source: AU-PeEL)
EBC1337727 (source: MiAaPQ)