Eco-communities

Surviving Well Together
Herausgeber: Pickerill, Jenny

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically explores the aims and practices of worldwide eco-communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 687g
• ISBN-13: 9781350528154
• ISBN-10: 1350528153
• Artikelnr.: 73223826

Autorenporträt

Jenny Pickerill is a Professor of Environmental Geography at University of Sheffield, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
World map of Eco-communities
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1 - Collective dynamic environmental experiments
Jenny Pickerill
Living Ecologically: Generating socio-ecological transformations
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 2 - Does living sustainably suck? Reduced consumption and quality
of life at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage during the Anthropocene
Joshua Lockyer and Brooke Jones
Chapter 3 - Understanding consumption reduction through the social
practices of an Australian Eco-community
Matthew Daly
Chapter 4 - Reconfiguring more-than-human relations in Eco-communities:
skillsets, empowerment, and discomfort
Elisa Schramm
Chapter 5 - Peopled environments: Eco-communities and their
reconfigurations of nature
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 6 - Eco-communities and outsiders: Opportunities and obstacles to
transforming the world
Jon Anderson
Negotiating Questions of Inclusion
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 7 - Towards Inclusive Eco-communities: socially and environmentally
just sustainable futures
Tendai Chitewere
Chapter 8 - Settling in colonial ways? Eco-communities' uncomfortable
settler colonial practices
Adam Barker and Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 9 - Eco-communities and Feminism(s): Who cares? An ethnographic
study of social practices in three French Eco-communities
Nadine Gerner
Chapter 10 - Uneven equity and sustainability in intentional communities in
the USA: A national-level exploratory analysis
Christina Lopez and Russell Weaver
Chapter 11: Confronting Racial Privilege: Questioning whiteness in
Eco-communities
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 12 - In defence of Eco-Collaborative housing communities: Porous
boundaries and scaling out
Anitra Nelson
Doing it Together: Collective governance
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 13 - Contingent, contested, political: learning from processes of
environmental governance in the Global South to understand Eco-communities
Natasha Cornea
Chapter 14 - Organising together: coexisting, time economies, money and
scale in Barcelona Eco-communities
Marc Gavaldà and Claudio Cattaneo
Chapter 15 - How Eco-communities grow through social learning, social
permaculture, and group transformation
Helen Jarvis
Chapter 16 - Prompting spiritually prefigurative political practice:
Collective decision-making in Auroville, India
Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith
Building Diverse Economies
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 17 - Escaping capitalism? Time, quality of life and hybrid
economies
Kirsten Stevens-Wood
Chapter 18 - Workshops and liberation in Freetown Christiania: Tensions in
a post-growth community economy
Thomas S.J. Smith and Nadia Johanisova
Chapter 19 - Community economies in Eco-communities: spaces of
collaboration, opportunities and dilemmas
Jan Malý Blazek
Conclusions
Chapter 20 - Being collectively transformational?
Jenny Pickerill
Author biographies
Index