Living in utopia : New Zealand's intentional communities / by Lucy Sargisson and Lyman Tower Sargent
- Bib ID:
- 3305203
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sargisson, Lucy, 1964-
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- Description:
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- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004
- xv, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0754642240
- Summary:
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"In this book Sargisson and Sargent, both established writers on utopian theory, turn their attention to real-life utopian communities. The book is based on their fieldwork and extensive archival research in New Zealand, a country with a special place in the history of utopianism. A land of opportunity for settlers with dreams of a better life, New Zealand has, per capita, more intentional communities - groups of people who have chosen to live and sometimes work together for a common purpose - than any country in the world. Sargisson and Sargent draw on the experiences of more than fifty such communities, to offer the first academic survey of this form of living utopian experiment." "In telling the story of the New Zealand experience, Living in Utopia provides both transferable lessons in community, cooperation and social change and a unique insight into the utopianism at the heart of politics, society, and everyday life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introductions
- 2. Contexts : New Zealand as a utopia
- 3. The early days : the nineteenth century
- 4. The twentieth century : Beeville, James K. Baxter and the Ohu movement
- 5. Religious and spiritual communities
- 6. Cooperative lifestyles
- 7. Environmentalist communities
- 8. Conflict and longevity
- 9. Conclusion : what have we learned? Lasting lessons from New Zealand
- App. I. Katajuta community agreements
- App. II. Recognised forms of land ownership in New Zealand.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Sargent, Lyman Tower, 1940-
- Copyright:
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