Dedication
World map of Eco-communities
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1 - Collective dynamic environmental experiments
Jenny Pickerill
Living Ecologically: Generating socio-ecological transformations
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 2 - Does living sustainably suck? Reduced consumption and quality of life at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage during the Anthropocene
Joshua Lockyer and Brooke Jones
Chapter 3 - Understanding consumption reduction through the social practices of an Australian Eco-community
Matthew Daly
Chapter 4 - Reconfiguring more-than-human relations in Eco-communities: skillsets, empowerment, and discomfort
Elisa Schramm
Chapter 5 - Peopled environments: Eco-communities and their reconfigurations of nature
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 6 - Eco-communities and outsiders: Opportunities and obstacles to transforming the world
Jon Anderson
Negotiating Questions of Inclusion
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 7 - Towards Inclusive Eco-communities: socially and environmentally just sustainable futures
Tendai Chitewere
Chapter 8 - Settling in colonial ways? Eco-communities' uncomfortable settler colonial practices
Adam Barker and Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 9 - Eco-communities and Feminism(s): Who cares? An ethnographic study of social practices in three French Eco-communities
Nadine Gerner
Chapter 10 - Uneven equity and sustainability in intentional communities in the USA: A national-level exploratory analysis
Christina Lopez and Russell Weaver
Chapter 11: Confronting Racial Privilege: Questioning whiteness in Eco-communities
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 12 - In defence of Eco-Collaborative housing communities: Porous boundaries and scaling out
Anitra Nelson
Doing it Together: Collective governance
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 13 - Contingent, contested, political: learning from processes of environmental governance in the Global South to understand Eco-communities
Natasha Cornea
Chapter 14 - Organising together: coexisting, time economies, money and scale in Barcelona Eco-communities
Marc Gavaldà and Claudio Cattaneo
Chapter 15 - How Eco-communities grow through social learning, social permaculture, and group transformation
Helen Jarvis
Chapter 16 - Prompting spiritually prefigurative political practice: Collective decision-making in Auroville, India
Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith
Building Diverse Economies
Theme Introduction
Jenny Pickerill
Chapter 17 - Escaping capitalism? Time, quality of life and hybrid economies
Kirsten Stevens-Wood
Chapter 18 - Workshops and liberation in Freetown Christiania: Tensions in a post-growth community economy
Thomas S.J. Smith and Nadia Johanisova
Chapter 19 - Community economies in Eco-communities: spaces of collaboration, opportunities and dilemmas
Jan Malý Blazek
Conclusions
Chapter 20 - Being collectively transformational?
Jenny Pickerill
Author biographies
Index
