Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 17)

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 endeavour. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors-scholar-activists and activist-practitioners examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements. 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 List of Tables, Figures, and MapsAcknowledgementsContributors PrologueE. N. Anderson Introduction: Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: An IntroductionJoshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto PART I: BIOREGIONALISM Chapter 1. Growing a Life-Place PoliticsPeter Berg Chapter 2. On Bioregionalism and Watershed ConsciousnessJames J. Parsons Chapter 3. Growing an Oak: An Ethnography of Ozark BioregionalismBrian C. Campbell Chapter 4. The Adirondack Semester: An Integrated Approach to Cultivating Bioregional Knowledge & ConsciousnessSteve Alexander and Baylor Johnson Further Readings on Bioregionalism PART II: PERMACULTURE Chapter 5. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Permaculture: Moving Theory and Practice Toward SustainabilityJames R. Veteto and Joshua Lockyer Chapter 6. Weeds or Wisdom? Permaculture in the Eye of the Beholder on Latvian Eco-Health FarmsGuntra Aistara Chapter 7. Permaculture in the City: Ecological Habitus and the Distributed EcovillageRandolph Haluza-Delay and Ron Berezan Chapter 8. Culture, Permaculture and Experimental Anthropology in the Houston FoodshedBob Randall Chapter 9. Putting Permaculture Ethics to Work: Commons Thinking, Progress and HopeKaty Fox Chapter 10. Permaculture in Practice: Low Impact Development in BritainJenny Pickerill Chapter 11. In Search of Global Sustainability and Justice: How Permaculture Can Contribute to Development PolicyAili Pyhala Further Readings on Permaculture PART III: ECOVILLAGES Chapter 12. From Islands to Networks: The History and Future of the Ecovillage MovementJonathan Dawson Chapter 13. Creating Alternative Political Ecologies through the Construction of Ecovillages and Ecovillagers in ColombiaBrian Burke and Beatriz Arjona Chapter 14. Globalizing the Ecovillage Ideal: Networks of Neighborliness, Seeds of HopeTodd LeVasseur Chapter 15. Academia's .. " ... 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 ... 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."--Back cover Hidden Curriculum and Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability EducationDaniel Greenberg Chapter 16. Ecovillages and Capitalism: Building Sustainable Communities within an Unsustainable ContextTed Baker Further Readings on Ecovillages