Off the Grid - Vannini, Phillip; Taggart, Jonathan
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This ethnography explores the lives of people in each of Canada's provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini and Taggart raise important questions about our social future and whether off-grid living creates an environmentally and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice. These homes are experimental labs for our collective future, an intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives, and a call to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take for granted. This book is ideal for courses on the environment and sustainability as well as introduction to sociology and introduction to cultural anthropology courses.…mehr

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This ethnography explores the lives of people in each of Canada's provinces and territories living off the grid. Vannini and Taggart raise important questions about our social future and whether off-grid living creates an environmentally and culturally sustainable lifestyle practice. These homes are experimental labs for our collective future, an intimate look into unusual contemporary domestic lives, and a call to the rest of us leading ordinary lives to examine what we take for granted. This book is ideal for courses on the environment and sustainability as well as introduction to sociology and introduction to cultural anthropology courses.
Autorenporträt
Phillip Vannini is Canada Research Chair in Public Ethnography and Professor in the School of Communication & Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada.. He is author of dozens of journal articles and book chapters, and author/editor of ten books. Jonathan Taggart is a Vancouver-based photojournalist and member of the Boreal Collective. He holds a MA in Intercultural and International Communication. His photography exhibits have captured national audiences and his pictures have appeared in magazine and newspapers across the country, such as (for example for this project) Canadian Geographic, Yukon: North of Ordinary, BC Business, and The Tyee. Amongst other awards, he is the recent winner of the 2012 Western Canadian Music Award album cover design.