Life support: Nacirema redux
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Nan Ellin
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/40 Language Italian
Pages 14 P. File size 297 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2011-001003
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This article attributes a range of disconcerting public health trends and social isolation in the USA to a pervasive sense of fear along with certain aspects of the built environment. Far too often, the built environment fails to support life adequately, in turn, requiring other forms of ‘life support’. Americans have been coping with urban fragmentation, environmental degradation, and lack of character or ‘sense of place’ reactivelythrough denial, deflection, and distraction-manifest as an obsession with the private realm, and a corresponding deflection of energy and attention from investment in the public realm. At the same time, there have been significant proactive efforts that are successfully enhancing quality of life by improving environments at all scales.
Nan Ellin, Supporto vitale: Nacirema redux in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 40/2011, pp , DOI: 10.3280/LAS2011-001003