Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-239-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kingfisher, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Kommunal- und Baurecht Raumordnung, Städtebau, Wohnungsbaurecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: How Urban Cohousing Communities Can Expand How We Think about Wellbeing

Chapter 1. Kankanmori and Quayside Village: An Overview

Chapter 2. Quayside Village

Chapter 3. Kankanmori

Chapter 4. The Exchanges

Conclusion: Policies of Wellbeing

Appendix: The Film Shorts

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kingfisher, Catherine
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).