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Meeting the "other": Living in the Present : Gender and Sustainability in Bhutan

Door Rieki Crins

Categorie
Azië
Boeknummer
#367193-XM7
Titel
Meeting the "other": Living in the Present : Gender and Sustainability in Bhutan
Auteur
Crins, Rieki
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Delft : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
9059722612
ISBN13
9789059722613
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with colour photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Bhutan is unique amongst the small group of nations in the Himalayas. It is peaceful and democratic. Above all, it emphasizes happiness that is not necessarily associated with possession of material goods. It protects the environment by eschewing mass tourism that could trample its fragile land. Bhutan is also known for creating the world's one and only Index of Happiness as a measure of wellbeing for its people, which it prefers over the more materialistic and widely used index of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 1990, the Bhutanese government invited Western scientists to conduct research in one of Bhutan's most remote villages. Bhutan is a country where spirituality is everywhere, where the logic of the animist/Buddhist religion ordains that life is experienced entirely in the present a... (Lees verder)nd where human gender is conceived of as part and parcel of the cosmos. The people of Bhutan identify this experience explicitly as “sustainability.”
Pagina's
218
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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