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Place, Ecology and the Sacred - The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,061
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Place, Ecology and the Sacred - The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities (Hardcover): Michael S. Northcott

Place, Ecology and the Sacred - The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities (Hardcover)

Michael S. Northcott

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People are born in one place. Traditionally humans move around more than other animals, but in modernity the global mobility of persons and the factors of production increasingly disrupts the sense of place that is an intrinsic part of the human experience of being on earth. Industrial development and fossil fuelled mobility negatively impact the sense of place and help to foster a culture of placelessness where buildings, fields and houses increasingly display a monotonous aesthetic. At the same time ecological habitats, and diverse communities of species are degraded. Romantic resistance to the industrial evisceration of place and ecological diversity involved the setting aside of scenic or sublime landscapes as wilderness areas or parks. However the implication of this project is that human dwelling and ecological sustainability are intrinsically at odds. In this collection of essays Michael Northcott argues that the sense of the sacred which emanates from local communities of faith sustained a 'parochial ecology' which, over the centuries, shaped communities that were more socially just and ecologically sustainable than the kinds of exchange relationships and settlement patterns fostered by a global and place-blind economy. Hence Christian communities in medieval Europe fostered the distributed use and intergenerational care of common resources, such as alpine meadows, forests or river catchments. But contemporary political economists neglect the role of boundaried places, and spatial limits, in the welfare of human and ecological communities. Northcott argues that place-based forms of community, dwelling and exchange - such as a local food economy - more closely resemble evolved commons governance arrangements, and facilitate the revival of a sense of neighbourhood, and of reconnection between persons and the ecological places in which they dwell.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2015
First published: March 2015
Authors: Michael S. Northcott
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-9964-5
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian social thought & activity
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian social thought & activity
Books > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian social thought & activity
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LSN: 1-4411-9964-0
Barcode: 9781441199645

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