Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780367500429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 282 str.

Torsten Meireis; Gabriele Rippl

Opis

Collating contributions from internationally renowned theoreticians of culture and leading researchers working in the fields of the humanities and sociology, this volume presents an in-depth, interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of cultural sustainability and the public visibility of such research. 

Spis treści

Part 1: Concepts of Culture and Cultural Sustainability  1. Introduction Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl  2. Culture and Sustainable Development from a UN Perspective Michael Gerber  3. The Future of Cultural Heritage and Its Challenges Aleida Assmann  4. Cultural Sustainability in Times of Cultural Genocide Wolfgang Huber  5. Sustainable Development and the Concept of Culture – An Ethical View Torsten Meireis Part 2: Philosophy, Sociology, Economics and Cultural Sustainability  6. Sustainability and Modernisation in Conflict: On Roger Scruton’s Conservative Green Philosophy Anton Leist  7. Culture, Consumption and Sustainability in a Sociological Perspective Ulf Liebe  8. Social Happiness as a Cultural Value: An Analysis of Shared Values for Ecosystem Assessment Galit P. Wellner  9. Challenges of Cultural Sustainability on an (Inter)Planetary Scale Andreas Losch  10. Sustainability’s Promise of Salvation? A Kuhnian Reconstruction of Sustainability from Resource Management to Contingency Management Marius Christen, Peter Seele, Lucas Zapf  Part 3: The Arts, Literature and Cultural Sustainability: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives  11. Culture and the Arts in Sustainable Development: Rethinking Sustainability Research Sacha Kagan  12. Cultural Ecology and the Sustainability of Literature Hubert Zapf  13. An Entangled History of Environmental and Cultural Sustainability: Satirical Reflections on the German Forest and the German Oak as Resources of Cultural Energy Evi Zemanek  14. The Cultural Sustainability of Victorian Waste Ursula Kluwick  15. The Moral Dilemma of Unsustainability: Eco-dystopian Fiction as Cultural Critique Alexa Weik von Mossner  16. A Tale of Love and Fallout: Lauren Redniss’ Graphic Narrative and the Ecological Imaginary Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl  17. Sustainability, Eco-Ekphrasis and the Ethics of Literary Description Gabriele Rippl  18. Ecogames: Playing to Save the Planet Joost Raessens  Part 4: Conclusion  19. Conclusion Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl