Living Off-Grid in Wales (eBook)

Eco-Villages in Policy and Practice

Elaine Forde (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
224 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-660-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Living Off-Grid in Wales addresses broad debates about the possibility of planning for a sustainable future, by an examination of rural development off the grid. Contrasting Wales's policy on One Planet Development - a planning policy that encourages living off-grid - with a more DIY approach to living off-grid, the book presents case studies from eco-villages that imagine off-grid very differently. The text pivots on the problematic question that if planning is about the spatial reproduction of society, then why should it encourage autonomy from societal systems. The ethnographic case studies in the book comprise an ethnography of rural Wales, and the focus on eco-villages brings a fresh perspective to the anthropological literature on community by considering off-grid as a radical form of social assemblage.

Autor

This study will be of interest to undergrad and postgraduate students, professionals (planner, policy), and researchers.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Eco • Elaine • Forde • GRID • Living • Off • Policy • Practice • villages • Wales
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-660-2 / 1786836602
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-660-1 / 9781786836601