Malin Bäckman

Introduces the concept of legacy-making: future-oriented actions and ideation concerning the material and environmental effects that humans leave behind with reference to their eventual demise. Interviews conducted in Italy, Sweden, South Korea, and the United States are drawn upon to illuminate material-environmental relationalities and entanglements constructed through everyday legacy-making practices. Material and environmental legacies are made by people within the small worlds of their environments and kinship structures, yet they are also connected to the small world of shared global practices and processes that engender the biggest challenges of our time: socio-economic inequalities, environmental degradation, and climate change. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Introduces the concept of legacy-making: future-oriented actions and ideation concerning the material and environmental effects that humans leave behind with reference to their eventual demise. Interviews conducted in Italy, Sweden, South Korea, and the United States are drawn upon to illuminate material-environmental relationalities and entanglements constructed through everyday legacy-making practices. Material and environmental legacies are made by people within the small worlds of their environments and kinship structures, yet they are also connected to the small world of shared global practices and processes that engender the biggest challenges of our time: socio-economic inequalities, environmental degradation, and climate change. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Hållbarhet brukar beskrivas i tre dimensioner: den ekonomiska, den sociala och den ekologiska. Men i ett lokalt sammanhang hänger allt ihop, och för att förstå och arbeta för hållbarhet måste man tänka i andra dimensioner. I den här antologin lyfter forskare från Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet fram en mångfald av helt andra sätt att tänka för att nå hållbarhet. Med utgångspunkt i konkreta platser och exempel diskuteras bland annat identiteter, kollektivt agerande, institutioner, maktrelationer och samhörighet till en plats som grundbultar i arbetet för ett mer hållbart samhälle.