Contemporary utopian struggles : communities between modernism and postmodernism

9789068611984

eng [Engels]

2 [Boek]

International Communal Studies Association Conference (6th : 1998 : Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Aksant

317 p

Saskia, Harrie, Beatrice

"This book contains a selected number of papers presented at the Sixth International Communal Studies Association (ICSA) Conference that was held in Amsterdam from 7 to 9 July 1998, under the title of 'Utopian Communities and Sustainability' ... Papers not selected ... are available for inspection at the IISG (International Institute for Social History), which has also published 'A working guide to sources on historical utopian experiments in the Western World at the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis' (see also ww.iisg.nl/commun)"--Acknowledgments.- Contents: The concepts of utopianism, modernism and postmodernism, community and sustainability / Saskia Poldervaart -- Utopia in cyberspace: Virtual communities and social reality / Marianne van den Boomen -- The function of the ideological bond in the kibbutz / Eli Avrahami -- Structure and value change in communal societies / Menahem Rosner -- Ecological utopias as navigational compasses: On the importance of ecotopias for the current debate about sustainability / Marius de Geus -- Scenario-thinking: a contemporary use of utopia / Akke Visser -- Desire is speaking: Utopian rhizomes / Freek Kallenberg -- Elsewhere/Elsewhen: Uncovering traditions and sustainability in DiY music and protest in post-war Britain / George McKay -- Cyborgs: beyond dichotomies / Karin Spaink -- Post-phallic culture: Reality now resembles utopian feminist science fiction / Marleen S. Barr -- The dissemination of utopian literature from England to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States / Lyman Tower Sargent -- Stories of contemporary communal elders from around the globe: From utopian dreaming to communal reality and shared visions, shared lives / Bill Metcalf -- The transformation of the kibbutz: from a classless society to a class society / Dani Rosolio -- Young adults and their attitude to communal life: The case of the kibbutz / Arza Avrahami -- The loss of sustainability of kibbutzim, the low-trust culture of federative organisations, and the diminishing morality of the elite / Reuven Shapira -- Cohousing: Linking community and sustainbility / Graham Meltzer -- Communal living in the Netherlands 1968-1998 / Harrie Jansen -- Co-housing by elderly people in the Netherlands / Petra Kruiswijk and Riki van Overbeek -- The historic roots of sustainability in communities / Timothy Miller -- Findhorn Foundation: Dealing with external criticism and attacks / Bill Metcalf -- The Eco-Village Movement, especially in Europe / Declan Kennedy -- Ecovillages and green kibbutz communities / Jan Martin Bang -- The tribe, natural and native eco-living at the edge of sylvilization / Eric R. van Monckhoven -- Centraal Wonen in the Netherlands: From a utopian to a daily lifestyle / Beatrice Kesler -- News from now-here: de Nieuwe Blauwen / Siebe Thissen -- The communal housing project for people with a psychiatric disability / Jeroen Willems -- Plea for unrestricted immigration / Vincent de Jong -- Widows' association Duhozanye: a community beyond utopia / Marieke van Geldermalsen