Urban Eco-Communities in Australia

Liam Cooper is an independent scholar with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Melbourne.  He has worked in the financial, government and community sectors and has conducted research in housing and sustainability at a number of non-government organisations.  Liam's research interests span the fields of urban and environmental anthropology, cultural ecology and human geography.Hans A. Baer is a Principal Honorary Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Social Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne. Hans has published some 20 books and 190 book chapters and articles on topics including Mormonism, African-American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical health anthropology, medical pluralism in the US, UK, and Australia, the critical anthropology of climate change and Australian climate politics. His books include Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health (with Merrill Singer, 2009), Global Capitalism and Climate Change (2012), Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia (with Verity Burgmann, 2012),  The Anthropology of Climate Change (with Merrill Singer, 2014) and Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia (2018). Hans earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Utah and has taught at several US colleges and universities, at Humboldt University in East Berlin as a Fulbright Lecturer and at the Australian National University.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Building the Future: Real Ecotopian Models in the Age of Climate Change.- 3 Christie Walk: An Urban Eco-Village in an Increasing Hot City.- 4 WestWyck: An Urban Eco-Village in the World’s Putatively Most Liveable City.- 5 Enacting Real Ecotopia in the City: Ontological and Ecological Characteristics and Contradictions.- 6 Prefiguring Ecopolis: Ecotopian Cities or Niche Markets?.- 7 Conclusion.