Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism - Softcover

Strange, Jason G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252084896 ISBN 13: 9780252084898

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

"You're either buried with your crystals or your shotgun." That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today.

Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society-only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.

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Jason Strange

is an assistant professor of general studies and peace and social justice studies at Berea College, and the chair of the Department of Peace and Social Justice Studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252084896
• ISBN 13: 9780252084898
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande