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The Anthropology of Utopia

Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development

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How can we avert ecological catastrophe? How can we build community? What is the practical relevance of utopia? These are some of the questions anthropologist Dan Chodorkoff explores in his essays on social ecology and community development.The Anthropology of Utopia surveys alternative ways of life that can help us create an ecological society. The solutions to our crises, Chodorkoff argues, lie ... Read more

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Reinvigorates ecological thought. Bookchin was a founder of the ecological movement and remains one of its most articulate and revolutionary writers. In his take-no-prisoners style, he insisted that the global environmental clock was running out—decades ago. His fervent and challenging ideas feel tailored for our times.The medicine we need. These ideas are, if anything, more relevant today than ... Read more

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Reinvigorates ecological thought. Bookchin was a founder of the ecological movement and remains one of its most articulate and revolutionary writers. In his take-no-prisoners style, he insisted that the global environmental clock was running out—decades ago. His fervent and challenging ideas feel tailored for our times.The medicine we need. These ideas are, if anything, more relevant today than
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Sugaring Down

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The year in 1968 and idealistic anti-war activists David and Jill have moved to an abandoned hill farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom to start a commune—hoping to refocus their efforts to build a new society. Joined by a rotating cast of committed activists and fair-weather freeloaders alike, David and Jill are confronted by the harsh environment of northern Vermont, where they discover the ... Read more

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The year in 1968 and idealistic anti-war activists David and Jill have moved to an abandoned hill farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom to start a commune—hoping to refocus their efforts to build a new society. Joined by a rotating cast of committed activists and fair-weather freeloaders alike, David and Jill are confronted by the harsh environment of northern Vermont, where they discover the
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Climate Leviathan

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Degrowth

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Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of ... Read more

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Perspectives on the Ideas of Gregory Bateson, Ecological Intelligence, and Educational Reforms

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Theories of Development

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This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts? The authors examine orthodox theories of growth grounded in different schools of economics (classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, neoliberal) before considering critical alternatives (Marxist, socialist, poststructuralist, and feminist). The ... Read more

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Convivial Futures

Views from a Post-Growth Tomorrow

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An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who argued that social and economic life is reducible to culture—that our choices reflect interpretations of the world around us rather than the
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Capitalism

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In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism,” upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between ... Read more

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The Radical Imagination

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by Doctor Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven ...

The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the ... Read more

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Capitalism in the Web of Life

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