Urban Eco-Communities in Australia

Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets?

Hans A. Baer, Liam Cooper

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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

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This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne. These novel responses to the ecological crisis – real social laboratories that attempt to manifest a vision of the ‘eco-city’ in microcosm – offer substantial new insights into the concept and creation of sustainable urban communities, their attempts to cultivate ways of living that are socially and ecologically nourishing, and their often fraught relationship to the capitalist city beyond. These studies also suggest the opportunities and limitations of moving beyond demonstration projects towards wider urban transformation, as well as exposing the problems of accessibility and affordability that thwart further urban eco-interventions and the ways that existing projects can exacerbate issues of gentrification and privilege in a socially polarised city. Amidst the challenges of the capitalist city, climate change and ecological crisis, this book offers vital lessons on the potential of urban sustainability in future cities.

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Urban Eco-villages in Australia, Challenges of Urban Utopias, Communal Experiments in Urban Sustainability, Utopian Initiatives in Australia, Urban Sustainability in Australia, Ecotopian Responses to Climate Change, Anthropology of Eco Communities, Urban Utopias in Australia, Ecotopian Projects in Australia, Eco-villages and Gentrifiction, Environmental Anthropology in Australia, Sustainable Communities in Australia, Eco-communities in Capitalist Society, Rurification, Utopian Projects in Australia, Urban Ecotopianism, Ontology and Ecology of Urban Eco Projects, Sustainable Community Initiatives, Urban Responses to Climate Change, Eco-city Visions for Future Australia