Abstract
In the face of climate pessimism and apocalyptic spectacle, Molly Wallace’s and David Carruthers’s collection, Perma/Culture: Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis, offers inspiring and hopeful alternatives from writers, scholars, and activists around the world who are working towards real, sustainable change by building communities that reimagine our relationship with nature. Wallace and Carruthers, and the other fourteen contributors to their collection, are committed to seeing our current crisis as a moment where we must conceptualize and build alternatives. And the contributors to Perma/Culture practice what they preach, which is perhaps the most compelling aspect of the collection: each essay balances conceptual change with grassroots activism, innovative agricultural theory with permacultural collectives. Each essay presents an experiment in thinking, seeing, and embodying place-based and sustainable change, and demonstrates clearly that what we really need right now is not a map of the coming inferno but replicable images of a sustainable future that already exist.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | The Goose |
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| Publication status | Published - 7 Feb 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |