Dynamic Utopia articulates a significant theoretical alternative to contemporary social movement theory. In opposition to linear conceptualizations of movement (birth, growth and decay), characteristic of classical and most contemporary social movement theory, the author posits an interpretation of subaltern resistance that attempts to capture its eternal qualities. Through the application of chaos theory Dynamic Utopia seeks recognition of the persistence of resistance hovering within civil society, modes of resistance not necessarily involving overt expressions of conflict, the amassing of resources, or the establishment of representative organizations. To that end, it is argued that contemporary intentional communities are indicative of a social movement, seeking as they do a progressive redefinition of fundamental aspects of politics, economics, and culture. The author's research proceeds by identifying the multiple ways in which intentional communities signify innovations in living, seeking to redefine the experiences of childcare, sex, love, play, conflict resolution, work, cohabitation, food production and distribution, environmentally conscious living, and spirituality. Intentional communities are, it is argued, laboratories for what is possible in the humane development of political, economic, and cultural relations. Analyses are primarily of American intentional communities, with references to communities in Italy and Mexico.
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ROBERT C. SCHEHR is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
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social movement status, contemporary intentional communities, lifeworld activities, utopian imaginary, regressive utopia, subaltern modes, contemporary social movement theory, lifeworld concerns, dominant cultural capital, political communes, communitarian literature, communitarian efforts, social movement actors, nostalgic utopia, social movement research, striated space, subaltern resistance, social movement theorists, mythical space, chaos theorists, utopian imagination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dynamic Utopia, New York, Robert Owen, United States, Reconstructing the Multiple, Embracing Heterogeneity, Ernst Bloch, Charles Taylor, Knights of Labor, New Lanark, Plato's Republic, Twin Oaks, Walter Benjamin, Alain Touraine, Coming Nation, Michael Walzer, New World, Thousand Plateaus, Hiawatha Colony New!
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social movement status, contemporary intentional communities, lifeworld activities, utopian imaginary, regressive utopia, subaltern modes, contemporary social movement theory, lifeworld concerns, dominant cultural capital, political communes, communitarian literature, communitarian efforts, social movement actors, nostalgic utopia, social movement research, striated space, subaltern resistance, social movement theorists, mythical space, chaos theorists, utopian imagination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dynamic Utopia, New York, Robert Owen, United States, Reconstructing the Multiple, Embracing Heterogeneity, Ernst Bloch, Charles Taylor, Knights of Labor, New Lanark, Plato's Republic, Twin Oaks, Walter Benjamin, Alain Touraine, Coming Nation, Michael Walzer, New World, Thousand Plateaus, Hiawatha Colony New!
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- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 5 pages
- New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity by Enrique Larana on 4 pages
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