Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better shares vivid case studies of small groups who are making a big impact by crafting alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. It offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in these troubled times.
Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better shares vivid case studies of small groups who are making a big impact by crafting alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. It offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in these troubled times.
STEPHANIE A. MALIN is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. She is the author of The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice (Rutgers University Press) and a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Environmental Justice at CSU. MEGHAN ELIZABETH KALLMAN is an assistant professor at the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development and is affiliated faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. She is the author of The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps and is a State Senator in Rhode Island.
Inhaltsangabe
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 Worlds 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
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 Worlds 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
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