Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Contents
- Our Sponsor
- What Is The Sharing Economy?
- Does Age Matter?
- Sharing By Gender
- Sharing The City
- Sharing The Countryside
- Sharing The Money
- Is Sharing Cultural?
- Sharing And Disability
- The Geography Of Sharing
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Generation Share demonstrates the power of Sharing. The change-makers show just what’s possible – now it’s your turn. What can you share? How can you make a difference?
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Contents
- Our Sponsor
- What Is The Sharing Economy?
- Does Age Matter?
- Sharing By Gender
- Sharing The City
- Sharing The Countryside
- Sharing The Money
- Is Sharing Cultural?
- Sharing And Disability
- The Geography Of Sharing
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Generation Share demonstrates the power of Sharing. The change-makers show just what’s possible – now it’s your turn. What can you share? How can you make a difference?
Summary
I feel most comfortable and most abundant when things are very simple and I know where everything is and there’s nothing around that I don’t need.
Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter, poet
You cannot live without sharing, we share the air we breathe, whatever is alive is dependent on something else for its living. The plants wouldn’t be able to live without the sun they depend on. We depend on sharing to be alive. I hope we become more aware of it and do it under the right conditions so that we can all flourish, I look forward to that future.
Alexandros Pagidas, Greek philosopher, founder of Patreon
Generation Share set out to bring the human stories of Sharing to life, to better understand the people behind the phenomenon known as the Sharing Economy – a system to live by where we care for people and planet and share available resources however we can. This book is the culmination of a decade-long expedition into the world of Sharing. Our journey to meet the people who are driving world change has been a study of age, gender, urban and rural living, wealth, culture, disability and geography in relation to the Sharing that makes us human. But it is also an exploration of the relationship between Sharing and the Sharing Economy, the final destination for this adventure.
Each story has offered a different insight into the life of a Sharer leading change in big and small ways. Each perspective demonstrates one of the five parts: categories, subsets, mode, values or impact of the Sharing Economy.
We’ve met Ashod Rathod who is sharing a love of football to educate and offer a future to slum kids in India; Saasha Celestial-One who through food-sharing app Olio believes we can end world hunger; there’s intrapreneur Nanjira Sambuli transforming the lives of women across Africa by sharing access to digital technology; we’ve visited Georgia Haddad Nicolau who is spearheading citizen innovation in Latin America, and grandma Alia Dasouqi who has been empowered by hosting shared dinners in her home in Jaffa, Israel. We’ve been fascinated by Malik Yakitini at D-Town Farm in Detroit, USA, who is campaigning for food justice, and Australian Paralympic athlete Elizabeth Wright, who uses positivity and character building to inspire schoolkids.
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- Generation ShareThe Change-Makers Building the Sharing Economy, pp. 287 - 301Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2019