Thinking, Feeling, Connecting Cultures: No Sustainability Without Sensuality
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This paper argues for the importance of emotional connections between people, places, resources and each other. Cultures make these connections and are made out of these connections. Changing ways of thinking, feeling and connecting can change our practices. Using George Bataille's distinction between the restricted and the general economies (the latter encompasses that which cannot be counted, accumulated or exchanged), I argue for the importance of sensual connections between people, places and the elements as promoting more 'sustainable' cultures and practices than those produced by repressive legislation.
Keywords: Culture, Water, Public Space, Communities, Sensuality
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Cultural Sustainability
Presentation Type:
30 minute Paper Presentation in English
Paper:
Thinking, Feeling, Connecting Cultures: No Sustainability Without Sensuality
Dr Christine Dew
Senior Lecturer, History Program, La Trobe University
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Ref: S05P0147