Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Catherine Kingfisher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-316-0 (ISBN)

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Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Catherine Kingfisher is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada (Berghahn, 2013) and Women in the American Welfare Trap (UPenn, 1996). She is also the editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (UPenn, 2002)

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Introduction: How Urban Cohousing Communities Can Expand How We Think about Wellbeing

Chapter 1. Kankanmori and Quayside Village: An Overview

Chapter 2. Quayside Village

Chapter 3. Kankanmori

Chapter 4. The Exchanges

Conclusion: Policies of Wellbeing

Appendix: The Film Shorts

References

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-316-2 / 1805393162
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-316-0 / 9781805393160
Zustand	Neuware