Collaborative Happiness - Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

About the author

Catherine Kingfisher is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada (Berghahn, 2013) and Women in the American Welfare Trap (UPenn, 1996). She is also the editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (UPenn, 2002)

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Kingfisher, Kingfisher Catherine
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781805393160
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-316-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, Canada, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Urban & municipal planning, Social and cultural anthropology, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Applied Anthropology, Urban Studies, Sociology