Living Off-Grid in Wales - Eco-Villages in Policy and Practice (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University Of Wales Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Elaine Forde
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-78683-658-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Alternative lifestyles
LSN:	1-78683-658-0
Barcode:	9781786836588

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