Globalization of Communes

1950-2010

Yaacov Oved

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Routledge
28 September 2017

Alternative lifestyles

After World War II, communes and cooperative communities became internationally oriented in their membership and networking began to develop. Unlike earlier such enterprises, these groups shared an openness to international relationships. This was evident both in the groups' social composition, and in the extension of networks beyond their own country. Such globalization opened up the possibility of comparative analysis, which has become a trend in research since the 1950s.

The dynamism and speed with which voluntary communities have spread throughout the world is impressive. In the 1950s there were only a few hundred such societies, but by the end of the last century there were thousands. These have taken a variety of forms. There are religious and secular communes, intentional communities, ecological communities, co-housing projects, various types of Christian communities, communities of Eastern religions, and spiritual communities inspired by New Age thought.

Yaacov Oved shows that such societies maintain a community based on cooperation and expand their influence through newspapers, television, and the Internet. Their chief characteristic is their openness to the outside world, and their search for a way to move beyond a world of individualism and competitiveness. To accomplish this, they embrace all the tools of the modern world. Oved observes that those who predicted the failure of communes and intentional communities failed to appreciate the extent to which people in today's society aspire to communal life. This book answers the doubters and does so with a sense of deep historical understanding.

By: Yaacov Oved
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138510388
ISBN 10: 1138510386
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 28 September 2017
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface, Introduction: Th e Globalization of Communes and Cooperative Communities, 1. Th e Fifties—Th e First Buds, 2. US Communes in the Sixties: Th e High Tide, 3. Th e Seventies’ Communes—Stability and Diversity, 4. Th e Eighties: From Decline to Recovery, 5. Expansion and Diversity in the 1990s, 6. Communes and Cooperative Communities at the Turn of the Century, 7. A Collective Profi le of the Communes and Intentional Communities, 8. Th e Kibbutz Movement and the Communes, 9. A Personal Afterword, Bibliography, Index

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