Catherine Kingfisher

Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

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Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing as simultaneously social and subjective, while catering for groups of people so diverse in age. Collaborative Happiness looks at two such urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both soci… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-80073-240-7
EAN: 9781800732407
Produktnummer: 36002461
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 254 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 8

Über den Autor

Catherine Kingfisher is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is the author of A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada (Berghahn, 2013) and Women in the American Welfare Trap (UPenn, 1996). She is also the editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (UPenn, 2002)