Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Foreword xi
6. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: An Introduction 1
7. I Bioregionalism
8. Chapter One. Growing a Life-Place Politics 35
9. Chapter Two. On Bioregionalism and Watershed Consciousness 49
10. Chapter Three. Growing an Oak An Ethnography of Ozark Bioregionalism 58
11. Chapter Four. The Adirondack Semester: An Integrated Approach to Cultivating Bioregional Knowledge and Consciousness 76
12. Further Readings on Bioregionalism 92
13. II Permaculture
14. Chapter Five. Environmental Anthropology Engaging Permaculture: Moving Theory and Practice Toward Sustainability 95
15. Chapter Six. Weeds or Wisdom? Permaculture in the Eye of the Beholder on Latvian Eco-Health Farms 113
16. Chapter Seven. Permaculture in the City: Ecological Habitus and the Distributed Ecovillage 130
17. Chapter Eight. Culture, Permaculture, and Experimental Anthropology in the Houston Foodshed 146
18. Chapter Nine. Putting Permaculture Ethics to Work: Commons Thinking, Progress, and Hope 164
19. Chapter Ten. Permaculture in Practice: Low Impact Development in Britain 180
20. Chapter Eleven. In Search of Global Sustainability and Justice: How Permaculture Can Contribute to Development Policy 195
21. Further Readings on Permaculture 213
22. III Ecovillages
23. Chapter Twelve. From Islands to Networks: The History and Future of the Ecovillage Movement 217
24. Chapter Thirteen. Creating Alternative Political Ecologies through the Construction of Ecovillages and Ecovillagers in Colombia 235
25. Chapter Fourteen. Globalizing the Ecovillage Ideal: Networks of Empowerment, Seeds of Hope 251
26. Chapter Fifteen. Academia’s Hidden Curriculum and Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability Education 269
27. Chapter Sixteen. Ecovillages and Capitalism: Creating Sustainable Communities within an Unsustainable Context 285
28. Further Readings on Ecovillages 301
29. Notes on Contributors 303
30. Index 308