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Reimagining labour for a sustainable future / Alison E. Vogelaar and Poulomi Dasgupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vogelaar, Alison E., author.
- Dasgupta, Poulomi, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in sustainability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--Case studies.
- Labor.
- Neoliberalism--Case studies.
- Neoliberalism.
- Capitalism--Case studies.
- Capitalism.
- Sustainable development--Case studies.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 123 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Alison E. Vogelaar is an independent scholar whose research and writing focus on the themes of representation, marginalization, justice and sustainability. She has published numerous academic articles, two co-edited volumes (The Discourses of Environmental Collapse and Nature and City: Changing Representations, 1960s-1970s) and is presently working on two pieces about labor in contemporary higher education. She was a tenured Associate Professor at Franklin University Switzerland from 2008-2021. Poulomi Dasgupta is an Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin University Switzerland, with research interests in political economy, development economics, postcolonial economics, labour and labour movements and sustainable development. She is also a research scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Her work on employment generation is The Job Guarantee: Toward Full Employment and her work on sustainable development is Rethinking Economics - Experiences from Plural Socio-Economic Higher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Capitalism, crisis and the imagination
- The neoliberal imaginary
- Social imaginaries
- Plotting and planting: Rural regeneration at Tombreck Farm Scotland
- Seed change: Navdanya and the reimagination of reproductive economies
- No justice, no java: Tonatierra and the anti-extractivist commons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 17, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Vogelaar, Alison E. Reimagining labour for a sustainable future
- ISBN:
- 9781003138617
- 1003138616
- 9781000830613
- 1000830616
- 9781000830583
- 1000830586
- Publisher Number:
- 40031529124
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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