Urban Eco-Communities in Australia
Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets?
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Beschreibung
This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne. These novel responses to the ecological crisis – real social laboratories that attempt to manifest a vision of the ‘eco-city’ in microcosm – offer substantial new insights into the concept and creation of sustainable urban communities, their attempts to cultivate ways of living that are socially and ecologically nourishing, and their often fraught relationship to the capitalist city beyond. These studies also suggest the opportunities and limitations of moving beyond demonstration projects towards wider urban transformation, as well as exposing the problems of accessibility and affordability that thwart further urban eco-interventions and the ways that existing projects can exacerbateissues of gentrification and privilege in a socially polarised city. Amidst the challenges of the capitalist city, climate change and ecological crisis, this book offers vital lessons on the potential of urban sustainability in future cities.
This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne. These novel responses to the ecological crisis – real social laboratories that attempt to manifest a vision of the ‘eco-city’ in microcosm – offer substantial new insights into the concept and creation of sustainable urban communities, their attempts to cultivate ways of living that are socially and ecologically nourishing, and their often fraught relationship to the capitalist city beyond. These studies also suggest the opportunities and limitations of moving beyond demonstration projects towards wider urban transformation, as well as exposing the problems of accessibility and affordability that thwart further urban eco-interventions and the ways that existing projects can exacerbate issues of gentrification and privilege in a socially polarised city. Amidst the challenges of the capitalist city, climate change and ecological crisis, this book offers vital lessons on the potential of urban sustainability in future cities.
Provides in-depth accounts of the inner working of two pioneering Australian inner urban eco-communities Scrutinises urban eco-villages through the contextual lenses of utopianism and sustainability Offers an anthropological perspective on urban eco-community building
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Liam Cooper
Themen in »Urban Eco-Communities in Australia«
Urban Eco-villages in Australia Sustainable Communities in Australia Urban Ecotopianism Ecotopian Projects in Australia Urban Utopias in Australia Communal Experiments in Urban Sustainability Sustainable Community Initiatives Urban Sustainability in Australia Rurification Eco-villages and Gentrifiction Eco-city Visions for Future Australia Environmental Anthropology in Australia Ontology and Ecology of Urban Eco Projects Urban Responses to Climate Change Utopian Initiatives in Australia