West of Eden : Communes and Utopia in Northern California

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boal, Iain.

Contributor:

Stone, Janferie.

Watts, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communal living--California.

Communal living.

Ideology.

Utopias.

California.

Local Subjects:

Communal living--California.

Communal living.

Ideology.

Utopias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

: PM Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a large portion of the population had become disenchanted with the American way of life that they did not feel they belonged to. While some openly revolted in the streets, others took to turning away from the mainstream and headed toward a new world. Utopian visions, manifesting themselves in the form of communes, were aimed at breaking the bonds of capitalism, big business, and the reigning oligarchy and were popping up throughout the country. The San Francisco Bay Area was the hotbed of these communes, and from the Height-Ashbury in San Francisco, east to

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue by Iain Boal""; ""Part I. Context""; ""Chapter 1. California Communes: A Venerable Tradition by Timothy Miller""; ""Chapter 2. Conviviality and Perspicacity: Evaluating 1960s Communitarianism by Michael William Doyle""; ""Chapter 3. The Counterculture as Commons: The Ecology of Community in the Bay Area by Jeff Lustig""; ""Chapter 4. The Commune as Badlands as Utopia as Autonomous Zone by Jesse Drew""; ""Part II. The City""

""Chapter 5. Bulldozers in Utopia: Open Land, Outlaw Territory, and the Code Wars by Felicity D. Scott""""Chapter 6. The Dome and the Shack: The Dialectics of Hippie Enlightenment by Simon Sadler""; ""Chapter 7. Occupied Alcatraz: Native American Community and Activism by Janferie Stone""; ""Chapter 8. Communalism and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California by Robyn C. Spencer""; ""Chapter 9. Magus of the Counterculture: Ramón Sender talks with Iain Boal""; ""Part III. The Country""; ""Chapter 10. The Albion Nation: Communes on the Mendocino Coast by Cal Winslow""

""Pathways Dawn Hofberg�“We �longhairs� inhabited a certain patch at lunchtime�""""Weed�“We did become a commune, eventually decided to share everything�""; ""Bill Heil�“Hippies from Alabama headed for the Promised Land�""; ""Carmen Goodyear�“We met in Berkeley�that heady summer of love�""; ""Chapter 11. Our Bodies, Our Communal Selves by Janferie Stone""; ""Part IV. Legacies""; ""Chapter 12. Green Gold and the American Way by Ray Raphael""; ""Chapter 13. Counterculture, Cyberculture, and the Third Culture: Reinventing Civilization, Then and Now by Lee Worden""

""Chapter 14. Caught on the Hop of History: Communes and Communards on the Canvas of �68 by Michael Watts""""Epilogue by Cal Winslow""; ""Contributors""; ""Bibliographic Note""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-60486-718-3

OCLC:

785217571