Dwelling in Resistance - Living With Alternative Technologies in America

Informationen zum Autor Schelly, Chelsea Klappentext Most people take for granted much of what is materially involved in the daily rituals of dwelling. In Dwelling in Resistance, Chelsea Schelly portrays a range of residential living alternatives utilizing renewable, small-scale, de-centralized technologies. These technologies change how individuals and communities interact with the material world, their natural environment, and one another. Zusammenfassung Chelsea Schelly uses ethnographic research, participant observation, and numerous in-depth interviews to examine four alternative U.S. communities where individuals use electricity, water, heat, waste, food, and transportation technologies that differ markedly from those used by the vast majority of modern American residential dwellers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 What Does it Mean to Dwell in Resistance?                       2 What “Normal” Dwelling Looks Like: The History of Home Technologies 3 Custodians of the Earth, Witnesses to Transition: The Story of the Farm       4 The Abundance of the Commons: Twin Oaks and the Plentitude Ethic        5 Individualism and Symbiosis: The Dance at Dancing Rabbit     6 Self-Sufficiency as Social Justice: The Case of Earthship Biotecture                 7 Dwelling in Resistance                                                                 Appendix: Reflections and Lessons on Method Acknowledgements                                                          References                                                                                                                        Index

Product details

• Authors: Chelsea Schelly
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780813586502
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-8650-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Nature, Society, and Culture; Nature, Society, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories