Slow living / Wendy Parkins and Geoffrey Craig.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Berg, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: xii, 180 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781845201609 (pbk.)
- 1845201604 (pbk.)
- 9781845201593 (cloth)
- 1845201590 (cloth)
- 306.481 23
- HN18.3 .P37 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Slow living in the global everyday -- 2. Slow food -- 3. Time and speed -- 4. Space and place -- 5. Food and pleasure -- 6. The politics of slow living -- App. Official manifesto for the international movement for the defense of and the right to pleasure.
"Speed is the essence of the modern era, but our faster, more frenetic lives often trouble us and leave us wondering how we are meant to live in today's world. Slow Living explores the philosophy and politics of 'slowness' as it investigates the growth of Slow Food into a worldwide, 'eco-gastronomic' movement." "Originating in Italy, Slow Food is not only committed to the preservation of traditional cuisines and sustainable agriculture but also the pleasures of the table and a slower approach to life in general. Craig and Parkins argue that slow living is a complex response to processes of globalization. It connects ethics and pleasure, the global and the local, as part of a new emphasis on everyday life in contemporary culture and politics. The 'global everyday' is not a simple tale of speed and geographical dislocation. Instead, we all negotiate different times and spaces that make our quality of life and an 'ethics of living' more pressing concerns. This book shows how slow living is about the challenges of living a more mindful and pleasurable life."--BOOK JACKET.
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