As environmental crises loom, Surviving Collapse makes an argument for radical changes in the ways in which people live to avoid a dystopian future. To foster readers' imagination, Christina Ergas reveals real utopian stories that counter climate apocalypse narratives. Two eco-communities offer examples of alternative futures with small environmental footprints and more egalitarian social practices. They model solutions to the interconnected problems of rising social inequalities and environmental degradation. Each case engages in community-oriented practices, direct democracy, and ecological…mehr
As environmental crises loom, Surviving Collapse makes an argument for radical changes in the ways in which people live to avoid a dystopian future. To foster readers' imagination, Christina Ergas reveals real utopian stories that counter climate apocalypse narratives. Two eco-communities offer examples of alternative futures with small environmental footprints and more egalitarian social practices. They model solutions to the interconnected problems of rising social inequalities and environmental degradation. Each case engages in community-oriented practices, direct democracy, and ecological agricultural forms that attend to whole ecosystems. These practitioners recognize the value of whole biotic communities, human and nonhuman, and practice reciprocity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christina Ergas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. Their research areas include sustainability, environmental injustice, gender and development, and environmental social movements. Dr Ergas received a PhD from the University of Oregon in 2013 and completed a Postdoc at Brown in 2017. Some journals they have published in include Rural Sociology, Organization and Environment, Environmental Sociology, and Social Science Research. Dr Ergas also is active in environmental movements, including the climate strikes and pursuing a Green New Deal.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Building Socioecological Community * Chapter 1: In the Shadow of Sustainable Development * Chapter 2: Grassroots Sustainability in a Concrete Landscape: An Urban Ecovillage in the Pacific Northwest * Chapter 3: Urban Oasis: Socioecological Sustainability in Cuban Urban Agriculture * Chapter 4: Beyond Neoliberalism: The Promise of a Communitarian Story * Chapter 5: Scaling Up the Values Themselves: Real Utopian Stories for the Climate Apocalypse * Conclusion: There Is No Future That Is Not Built in the Present * Appendix: Methods and Cases * Notes * References * Index
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction: Building Socioecological Community * Chapter 1: In the Shadow of Sustainable Development * Chapter 2: Grassroots Sustainability in a Concrete Landscape: An Urban Ecovillage in the Pacific Northwest * Chapter 3: Urban Oasis: Socioecological Sustainability in Cuban Urban Agriculture * Chapter 4: Beyond Neoliberalism: The Promise of a Communitarian Story * Chapter 5: Scaling Up the Values Themselves: Real Utopian Stories for the Climate Apocalypse * Conclusion: There Is No Future That Is Not Built in the Present * Appendix: Methods and Cases * Notes * References * Index
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