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Perma Culture Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis 1st Edition by Molly Wallace, David Carruthers ISBN 1138400424 9781138284845

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Year: 2017

Language: english

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ISBN 10: 1138400424
ISBN 13: 9781138284845
Author: Molly Wallace, David Carruthers

In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there are relatively few that explore the possibilities and practices which work to avoid collapse and build alternatives. The keyword of this book’s full title, ‘Perma/Culture,’ alludes to and plays on ‘permaculture’, an international movement that can provide a framework for navigating the multiple ‘other worlds’ within a broader environmental ethic. This edited collection brings together essays from an international team of scholars, activists and artists in order to provide a critical introduction to the ethico-political and cultural elements around the concept of ‘Perma/Culture’. These multidisciplinary essays include a varied landscape of sites and practices, from readings from ecotopian literature to an analysis of the intersection of agriculture and art; from an account of the rewards and difficulties of building community in Transition Towns to a description of the ad hoc infrastructure of a fracking protest camp. Offering a number of constructive models in response to current global environmental challenges, this book makes a significant contribution to current eco-literature and will be of great interest to students and researchers in Environmental Humanities, Environmental Studies, Sociology and Communication Studies.

Culture Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I Pattern languages

1 A pain in the neck and permacultural subjectivity

2 Bringing forth an ecotopian future: the production of imagined futures through contemporary cultural practices

3 Reclaiming accountability from hypertechnocivility, to grow again the flowering earth

4 Murray River Country: challenging water management practices to (re)invent place

5 Wild urban green spaces as seen through Montreal’s “Wild City Mapping” project

Part II Transitions in practice

6 The art of permatravel

7 Momentum in the age of sustainability: building up and burning out in a transition town

8 “Fracking is stoppable, another world is possible”

9 The problem with money: possibilities for alternative, sustainable, non-monetary economies

Part III Revolution disguised as gardening

10 A war against weeds: combating climate change with polycultural pacifism

11 Regeneration: loss and reclamation in African-American agrarianism

12 Defining the process of re-indigenization through soil communities

13 Sharing food, sharing knowledge: food and agriculture in contemporary art practices

14 The end(s) of freeganism and the cultural production of food waste

Poem: the Gleaner difference

Afterword: Gleanings

Index

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