Perma/Culture:

Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-28484-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, Molly

Carruthers, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Poem "Seeds of Aleppo"

Tiffany Higgins

Introduction Perma/Culture

Molly Wallace and David Carruthers

PART I: Pattern Languages

Ch 1. A Pain in the Neck and Permacultural Subjectivity

Andrea Most

Ch 2. Bringing Forth an Ecotopian Future: The Production of Imagined Futures through Contemporary Cultural Practices

Stephen Zavestoski and Andrew Weigert

Ch 3. Reclaiming Accountability from Hypertechnocivility, to Grow Again the Flowering Earth

Patrick Jones

Ch 4. Murray River Country: Challenging Water Management Practices to (Re)invent Place

Camille Rouliere

Ch 5. Wild Urban Green Spaces as Seen through Montreal’s "Wild City Mapping" Project

Dominique Ferraton

PART II: Transitions in Practice

Ch 6. The Art of Permatravel

Nina Gartrell

Ch 7. Momentum in the Age of Sustainability: Building Up and Burning Out in a Transition Town

Emily Polk

Ch 8. "Fracking Is Stoppable, Another World is Possible"

Claire Males

Ch 9. The Problem with Money: Possibilities for Alternative, Sustainable, Non-monetary Economies

George Price

PART III: REVOLUTION DISGUISED AS GARDENING

Ch 10: A War Against Weeds: Combating Climate Change with Polycultural Pacifism

David Carruthers

Ch 11. Regeneration: Loss and Reclamation in African American Agrarianism

Leah Penniman

Ch 12. Defining the Process of Re-indigenization through Soil Communities

Ruth Lapp and Robert Lovelace

Ch 13. Sharing Food, Sharing Knowledge: Food and Agriculture in Contemporary Art Practices

Amanda White

Ch 14. The End(s) of Freeganism and the Cultural Production of Food Waste

Leda Cooks

Poem The gleaner difference

Natalie Joelle

Afterword Gleanings

Molly Wallace

Über Autor(innen)

Molly Wallace is Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University, Canada. She writes about and teaches contemporary literature and ecocultural studies.
David Carruthers is a PhD candidate in English at Queen’s University, Canada. His recent work appears in Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature.