Global Im-Possibilities

Exploring the Paradoxes of Just Sustainabilities

Phoebe Godfrey, Mary Buchanan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78699-954-2 (ISBN)

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In a world where environmental issues are mixed with political sensibilities creating a multitude of paradoxes, this book provides fresh and realistic insights into just what needs to be done to achieve just sustainabilites and impede the possible social and environmental crises.

At a time when environmental and social stakes are at their highest – with rising crises and contradictions at the nexus of a building sense of environmental and social collapse – there are no easy solutions. Global Im-Possibilities explores just what can be done around the world to ameliorate this dynamic.

Using a range of essays and a multitude of case studies, this book explores what new lessons can be learned from examining the challenges and impediments to achieving just sustainabilities on the levels of policy, planning, and practice, and considers how these challenges and impediments can be addressed by individuals and/or governments.

Taking a nuanced approach to provide an intersectional analysis of a particular issue relating to the ideals for achieving sustainability, this book asserts that that it is only in recognizing such complexity that we can hope to achieve just sustainabilities.

Phoebe Godfrey is an Associate Professor in Residence in Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA. Mary Buchanan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Introduction -- Phoebe Godfrey, Mary Buchanan
Part I: Promises & Deliveries
1. Destroy and rebuild: Considering harm, community benefits & environmental ornamentation in community development in Atlanta -- Dr. Lemir Teron, Ms. T’Shari White, Ms. Farah Nibbs, Ms. Farzaneh Khayat
2. The sovereignty paradox: Negotiating values amid tribal adaptation to shale oil extraction -- Jacqline Wolf Tice, David Casagrande
3. Activism or extractivism: Indigenous land struggles in eastern Bolivia -- Evan Shenkin
Part II: Cities, Citizens & Systems
4. The bi-polar waterfront: Paradoxes of shoreline place-making in contemporary Accra and Colombo -- Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Epifania A. Amoo-Adare
5. Negotiations and contestations of just mobility: Rickshaws in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Md Musleh Uddin Hasan
6. Paradoxes of just sustainabilities in urban water sociotechnical systems: Lessons from Athens, Greece -- Marcia Rosalie Hale
Part III: Scales of Decision-Making & Action
7. Resistance to restricting? The politics of cars in Copenhagen -- Kevin T. Smiley
8. Popular consultations and extractivism in Colombia: From local to global actions against mining and climate change -- Aracely Burgos-Ayala, Emerson Harvey Cepeda-Rodríguez
9. Rescaling energy governance and the democratizing potential of ‘Community Choice’ -- Sean Kennedy, Ph.D.
Part IV: Re-imagining the Possible
10. Organic (dis)organization and transformation: Stories of resistance and return at CERES Community Environment Park -- Natalie Osborne & Deanna Grant-Smith
11. Just sustainability on the range: Empowering decisions at the soil surface -- Andrea and Tony Malmberg
12. Welcome to Tubman House -- Anthony Bayani Rodriguez
Conclusion: Global [Im]-Possibilities for Just Sustainabilities? -- Phoebe Godfrey, Mary Buchanan
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Just Sustainabilities
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-78699-954-4 / 1786999544
ISBN-13	978-1-78699-954-2 / 9781786999542
Zustand	Neuware