Living Off-Grid in Wales

Eco-Villages in Policy and Practice

Elaine Forde (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2020
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-658-8 (ISBN)

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Living Off-grid in Wales examines the new policy context for off-grid rural development by contrasting the policy approach with the activist version of going off-grid. The examples examined in the book feed into much broader debates about the possibility of planning for sustainable development. This book brings clarity to the notion of off-grid by examining two main case studies (supplemented by other ethnographic data) that do off-grid very differently to each other. The policy context that is examined in the book is distinctive to Wales - it is novel to see a planning policy that not only incorporates, but insists on off-grid. The book pivots on this contradiction: if planning (as is thought) is about the spatial reproduction of society, then why should it encourage autonomy from these systems? The ethnographic case studies also comprise an ethnography of rural Wales, and the book's focus on alternative communities brings a fresh perspective to the anthropological literature on community by considering off-grid as a new form of radical social assemblage.

Elaine Forde is a lecturer at Swansea University.

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
0 Introduction
1 Wales
2 Y Mynydd: A Village off the Grid
3 Tir y Gafel: A Model Village
4 More Problems with Community
5 Living Off-grid: Towards a Material Culture
6 OPD: Policy in Practice
7 Concluding Remarks
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	No
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-78683-658-0 / 1786836580
ISBN-13	978-1-78683-658-8 / 9781786836588
Zustand	Neuware