SMALL WORLDS

Introduces the concept of legacy making future oriented actions and ideation concerning the material and environmental effects that humans leave behind with reference to their eventual demise Interviews conducted in Italy Sweden South Korea and the United States are drawn upon to illuminate material environmental relationalities and entanglements constructed through everyday legacy making practices Material and environmental legacies are made by people within the small worlds of their environments and kinship structures yet they are also connected to the small world of shared global practices and processes that engender the biggest challenges of our time socio economic inequalities environmental degradation and climate change This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core