The good enough life
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This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town. Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of(...)
The good enough life
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This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town. Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These chapters alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophers in the Western tradition, from Socrates and the Stoics through Kant, Hegel and Heidegger to Adorno, Rawls, MacIntyre and Nussbaum. As an ethnography, this is a book of praise that reveals just how much we can learn from a respectful acknowledgment of what ordinary modest people have achieved. By creating community as a deliberate and social project that provides the foundation for a more fulfilling life, where affluence has not led to an increase in individualism, the people in this town have found a way to live the good enough life. The book also shows how anthropology and philosophy can complement and enrich one another in an inquiry into what we might accomplish in our lives.
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Fourier ou l'utopie en réel
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De l'imaginaire utopique à l'expérimentation sociale dans le réel : l'utopie réellement expérimentale de Charles Fourier, inventeur d'une théorie sociétaire inédite, et initiateur d'une réflexion qui trouve ses prolongements dans les questions sociales et environnementales d'aujourd'hui.
Fourier ou l'utopie en réel
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De l'imaginaire utopique à l'expérimentation sociale dans le réel : l'utopie réellement expérimentale de Charles Fourier, inventeur d'une théorie sociétaire inédite, et initiateur d'une réflexion qui trouve ses prolongements dans les questions sociales et environnementales d'aujourd'hui.
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In ''Build, baby, build: The science and ethics of housing regulation'', economist Bryan Caplan makes the economic and philosophical case for radical deregulation of this massive market freeing property owners to build as tall and dense as they wish. Not only would the average price of housing be cut in half, but the building boom unleashed by deregulation would(...)
Build, baby, build: The science and ethics of building regulation
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In ''Build, baby, build: The science and ethics of housing regulation'', economist Bryan Caplan makes the economic and philosophical case for radical deregulation of this massive market freeing property owners to build as tall and dense as they wish. Not only would the average price of housing be cut in half, but the building boom unleashed by deregulation would simultaneously reduce inequality, increase social mobility, promote economic growth, reduce homelessness, increase birth rates, help the environment, cut crime, and more.
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Dans les années 1960, plus de 75 000 immigré·es d'origine algérienne, portugaise, marocaine et tunisienne vivent dans 255 bidonvilles en France métropolitaine. Parmi les habitant·es, se trouvent de nombreuses familles et leurs enfants. Que signifie grandir dans une baraque? Comment s'est déroulée la sortie des bidonvilles? En cherchant à comprendre comment se constituent(...)
Enfants de bidonvilles : une autre histoire des inégalités urbaines
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Dans les années 1960, plus de 75 000 immigré·es d'origine algérienne, portugaise, marocaine et tunisienne vivent dans 255 bidonvilles en France métropolitaine. Parmi les habitant·es, se trouvent de nombreuses familles et leurs enfants. Que signifie grandir dans une baraque? Comment s'est déroulée la sortie des bidonvilles? En cherchant à comprendre comment se constituent les inégalités urbaines, ce livre met au jour les mécanismes de reproduction de l'ordre social, depuis l'élaboration de politiques publiques racialisantes jusqu'aux micro-différences de classe dans l'intimité des familles. Il prend le parti d'une écriture narrative, étayée de photographies et de cartes, qui permet de suivre l'enquête et les destinées des enfants des bidonvilles.
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La mode comme indiscipline
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Exposée, médiatisée, encensée ou critiquée, la mode définit une partie conséquente de l’histoire matérielle de nos sociétés, et est un indéniable agent d’intelligibilité du contemporain. À l’image de son industrie complexe et mobile, elle constitue une discipline en devenir, un champ de recherche interdisciplinaire qui s’est progressivement approprié les grilles d’analyse(...)
La mode comme indiscipline
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Exposée, médiatisée, encensée ou critiquée, la mode définit une partie conséquente de l’histoire matérielle de nos sociétés, et est un indéniable agent d’intelligibilité du contemporain. À l’image de son industrie complexe et mobile, elle constitue une discipline en devenir, un champ de recherche interdisciplinaire qui s’est progressivement approprié les grilles d’analyse et les outils critiques des sciences voisines, tout en se nourrissant de ses propres paradoxes et ambiguïtés. Entre permanence et nouveauté, matérialité et immatérialité, cet ouvrage a pour vocation de témoigner de la richesse de ce champ de création en esquissant un état des lieux de la pensée sur, par et pour la mode.
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Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all milestones of the three-year project, contextualizing and expanding its discourse through expert voices and emerging creative visions. At its(...)
Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes For Eco-Social Renewal
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Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all milestones of the three-year project, contextualizing and expanding its discourse through expert voices and emerging creative visions. At its heart are seven prototypes for eco-social renewal, each proposing new ways to engage with one another and with what surrounds us, at the surface of the planet and beyond. They explore ways in which AI could mitigate climate change; immerse us in new forms of community through ancestral agricultural knowledge; employ fiction as a tool for new modes of multispecies conviviality; or create embodied connections to understand human impact in endangered territories.
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Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, ''Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun'' traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book ''Carceral Capitalism''. ''Alien Daughters''(...)
Alien daughters walk into the sun: An almanac of extreme girlhood
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Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, ''Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun'' traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book ''Carceral Capitalism''. ''Alien Daughters'' charts the dream-seeking misadventures of an “odd girl” from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and beautifully personal, ''Alien Daughters'' is a strange intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang's singular self-education: an early life lived where every day and every written word began like the Tarot's Fool, with a leap of faith.
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The Black geographic
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The contributors to ''The Black geographic'' explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to(...)
The Black geographic
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The contributors to ''The Black geographic'' explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to show how understanding the spatial dimensions of Black life contributes to a broader understanding of race and space. They examine key sites of inquiry: Black spatial imaginaries, resistance to racial violence, the geographies of racial capitalism, and struggles over urban space. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that Blackness is itself a situating and place-making force, even as it is shaped by spatial processes and diasporic routes. Whether discussing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionist print records or migration and surveillance in Niger, this volume demonstrates that Black Geographies is a mode of analyzing Blackness that fundamentally challenges the very foundations of the field of geography and its historical entwinement with colonialism, enslavement, and imperialism. In short, it marks a new step in the evolution of the field.
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In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots—more than a third of the city—as “vacant” or “abandoned.” Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink the Motor City’s footprint and budget, Safransky presents a new way of(...)
The city after property: Abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit
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In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots—more than a third of the city—as “vacant” or “abandoned.” Analyzing subsequent efforts to shrink the Motor City’s footprint and budget, Safransky presents a new way of conceptualizing urban abandonment. She challenges popular myths that cast Detroit as empty along with narratives that reduce its historical decline to capital and white flight. In connecting contemporary debates over neoliberal urbanism to Cold War histories and the lasting political legacies of global movements for decolonization and Black liberation, she foregrounds how the making of—and challenges to—modern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics. Drawing on critical geographical theory and community-based ethnography, Safransky shows how private property functions as a racialized construct, an ideology, and a moral force that shapes selves and worlds. By thinking the city “after property,” Safransky illuminates alternative ways of imagining and organizing urban life.
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''Resisting eviction'' centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban (re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss. How can the City of Ottawa aspire to become ''North(...)
Resisting eviction: Domicide and the financialization of rental housing
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''Resisting eviction'' centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban (re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss. How can the City of Ottawa aspire to become ''North America’s most liveable mid-sized city'' while large-scale, demolition-driven evictions displace hundreds of people and destroy a community? Troubling discourses of urban liveability, revitalization and improvement, Crosby examines the deliberate destruction of home—domicide—and tenant resistance in the Heron Gate neighbourhood in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin land. Heron Gate is a large rental neighbourhood owned by one multi-billion-dollar real estate investment firm. Around 800 people—predominantly lower-income, racialized households—have been demovicted and displaced from the neighbourhood since 2016, leading to the emergence of the Herongate Tenant Coalition to fight the evictions and confront the landlord-developer. This case study is meticulously documented through political activist ethnography, making this book a brilliant example of ethical engagement and methodological integrity.
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