Description
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 social and environmental sustainability.
Author: Catherine Kingfisher
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 10/15/2021
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781800732391
ISBN10: 1800732392
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Law | Housing & Urban Development
About the Author
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)