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Author Sargisson, Lucy

Title Living in Utopia : New Zealand's Intentional Communities
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introductions -- Introduction -- What to Call these Communities -- Past Scholarship -- What is an Intentional Community? -- New Zealand -- Utopianism and/of the Colonised -- The Problem of Maori Communalism -- Methods -- 2 Contexts: New Zealand as a Utopia -- Introduction -- Colonisation -- The Official Settlement Utopia -- The Environment -- The Economy -- Tourism in Paradise -- Land Politics -- Conclusion: From Colonisation to Intentional Community -- 3 The Early Days: The Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- Special Settlements -- Independent Settlements -- Proposals -- State Farms -- The Clarionites -- Alexander Bickerton and the Federative Home or Wainoni -- Havelock North: the Havelock Work and Radiant Living -- Conclusion -- 4 The Twentieth Century: Beeville, James K. Baxter and the Ohu Movement -- Introduction -- Beeville -- James K. Baxter and Jerusalem -- The Ohu Movement -- Conclusion -- 5 Religious and Spiritual Communities -- Introduction -- Contemplative Religious Communities -- Bodhinyanarama Buddhist Monastery -- Carmelite Monastery, Christchurch -- Community of the Sacred Name -- Contemplative Religious Communities: Discussion -- Religious Communities of Social Change -- Motukarara Christian Retreat -- Sisters of Compassion (Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion) -- The Friends' Settlement/Quaker Acres -- Sisters of Mercy -- Religious Communities of Social Change: Discussion -- Spiritual Communities of Personal Growth -- Centrepoint -- Titoki Healing Centre -- Religious Communities of Personal Growth: Discussion -- Gloriavale -- Conclusion -- 6 Cooperative Lifestyles -- Introduction -- Cooperative Ownership -- Pursuit of a Cooperative Lifestyle -- Beachcomber/Freebird -- Chippenham Community -- Mansfield
Creekside -- Katajuta -- Peterborough Street -- Co-Housing -- Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood -- Feminist Communities -- Earthspirit -- Educational Communities -- Te Ora -- Timatanga -- Anarchist Communities -- Graham Downs (aka Renaissance) -- Cooperation and Peace -- Riverside -- Conclusion: Cooperative Lifestyles -- 7 Environmentalist Communities -- Introduction -- Background Influences -- New Zealand's Green Communities -- 1970s Rural Communes: The Older Generation -- Karuna Falls -- Moehau -- Communal Organic Farms -- Gricklegrass -- Wilderland -- Green Spiritual Communities -- Anahata Retreat Centre -- Gentle World -- Tui Community -- Eco-villages -- Anahata -- Otamatea Ecovillage -- Conclusions: Green Communities in New Zealand -- 8 Conflict and Longevity -- Introduction -- Conflict and Intentional Communities -- Theorising Conflict -- Conflict as Dangerous -- Conflict as Desirable or Socially Useful -- Conflict in New Zealand's Intentional Communities -- Three Kinds of Conflict -- Conflicts of Principle -- Domestic Conflict -- Conflict over Relationships -- Surviving Conflict -- Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion: What Have We Learned? Lasting Lessons from New Zealand -- Lasting Lessons for Studying Utopia -- Good Place or No Place? -- Communitarianism and Utopianism -- Lasting Lessons for Studying Intentional Communities -- Concerning Generalisations -- Classifying Communities -- Measuring Success -- Concerning Homogeneity -- Lasting Lessons for Living Together -- Decisions Need to be Legitimate as Well as Mutually Binding -- Regarding Change -- Children -- Balancing Needs: People Who Live in Intentional Communities Need to Learn How to Balance their Own Needs with Those of the Group -- Sustainability. Intentional Communities Need to be Sustainable -- Social Sustainability -- The Need for Support -- Final Words
Appendix I: Katajuta Community Agreements -- Appendix II: Recognised Forms of Land Ownership in New Zealand -- Works Cited -- Index
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Subject Utopias -- New Zealand -- History
Utopias
New Zealand
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sargent, Lyman Tower
ISBN 9781351921763
1351921762