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Ecoviles a Espanya: buscant una transformació social emancipadora?
2020
Segons dades de la Global Ecovillage Network (2018), l'Estat espanyol és actualment el segon país més important del món, després dels Estats Units, en nombre d'ecoviles, la xifra de les quals no ha cessat de créixer al llarg dels darrers anys. Seguint la teoria d'Erik Olin Wright sobre transformacions socials emancipadores, tractarem la qüestió de si aquest boom representa una mostra d'una transformació social incipient i d'un canvi cultural que està experimentant el medi rural. Aquest treball es divideix en cinc seccions principals. La primera introdueix el problema, per abordar tot plegat la metodologia realitzada per a l'estudi de 29 ecoviles a Espanya utilitzant sis variables sobre inte…
Alternatives to the present global development pattern : ecovillages – a model for sustainable living?
2016
Master thesis development management - University of Agder 2016 The current way of development is exhausting the planets limitations, the continues increase in consumption are degrading the nature that is relied on for human existence. Thus, it is necessary to define an alternative way of developing. The aim is to achieve happiness for all, sustaining the resources of the planet. Ecovillages are recognized as a sustainable alternative which encompasses a holistic approach to the term sustainability. Through qualitative research in the form of participatory observations, interviews and a survey performed in Gambhira, an ecovillage in rural Colombia, the sustainability, educational mission as…
Ecovillages in Spain: Searching an emancipatory social transformation?
2018
Today the second most important country after the United States, in the number of ecovillages, and by far, the most prominent in Europe, is Spain. The question to be addressed here is whether this revival or boom of ecovillages in Spain is an incipient social transformation and cultural change, following Erik Olin Wright theory of emancipatory social transformation. This work is divided into five main sections. The first one introduces three different approaches that remark the importance of ecovillages for radical cultural and social studies. The second part explains the methodology performed for the study of 29 ecovillages in Spain, using six critical variables on material interests and i…