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Informationen zum Autor Joshua Lockyer is Professor of Anthropology at Arkansas Tech University where he is co-creating a bioregionally-based undergraduate anthropology program. James R. Veteto is Assistant Professor and faculty member of the Cherokee Studies Program in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Western Carolina University. He is Executive Director of the Appalachian Institute for Mountain Studies and Director of the Southern Seed Legacy. Klappentext 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. "The book is well structured, engaging and highly topical; it brings together a range of academics and practitioners - itself a potentially interesting and seldom examined dialogue - around three main areas which form the book's structure: Bioregionalism; Permaculture; Ecovillages." * Malcolm Miles, University of Plymouth "This is an excellent and timely collection of essays by ecological and environmental anthropologists and other scholars and activists who, together, are redefining the field of human ecology as a contribution to the cultural revolution the world needs, if we are to achieve the transition to sustainability." * Laura M. Rival, University of Oxford " - a fascinating and significant anthology. The integration in this book of theory and practice, scholar and activist, reprinted classics and new essays, is very creative and admirable. It deals with three contemporary subjects that have been rather neglected by researchers - It is current and futuristic in many respects [and] deserves a wide readership." * Leslie E. Sponsel, University of Hawai'i Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables, Figures, and Maps Acknowledgements Contributors Prologue E.N. Anderson Introduction: Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: An Introduction Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto PART I: BIOREGIONALISM Chapter 1. Growing a Life-Place Politics Peter Berg Chapter 2. On Bioregionalism and Watershed Consciousness James J. Parsons Chapter 3. Growing an Oak: An Ethnography of Ozark Bioregionalism Brian C. Campbell Chapter 4. The Adirondack Semester: An Integrated Approach to Cultivating Bioregional Knowledge & Consciousness Steve Alexander and Baylor Johnson Further Readings on Bioregionalism PART II: PERMACULTURE Chapter 5. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Permaculture: Moving Theory and Practice Toward Sustainability James R. Veteto and Joshua Lockyer Chapter 6. Weeds or Wisdom? Permaculture in the Eye of the Beholder on Latvian Eco-Health Farms Guntra Aistara Chapter 7. Permaculture in the City: Ecological Habitus and the Distributed Ecovillage Randolph Haluza-Delay and Ron Berezan Chapter 8. Culture, Permaculture and Experimental Anthropology in the Houston Foodshed Bo...
