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|a 307.0973 SHIRK
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|a Shirk, Adrian,
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|a Heaven is a place on Earth :
|b searching for an American utopia /
|c Adrian Shirk.
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|a First hardcover edition.
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|a Berkeley, California :
|b Counterpoint,
|c 2022.
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|a 333 pages ;
|c 24 cm
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|a Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333).
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|a Genre. The Utopianotes ; Utopia, the Bronx ; A brief history of American Utopianism ; Fellow travelers on the road to nowhere ; Living ; How to start a society -- Commune. Living ; The Bruderhof ; The ancestors ; The Big Muddy Ranch ; Living ; The simple way ; The farm ; The flesh failures (Let the sunshine in) -- Heaven. Living ; What's heaven got to do with it? ; Odd fellows at the Rockland Palace ; Divine upstate -- The garden & the city. The Catskills ; At least I will die free ; Gate Hill Cooperative ; Living ; The beginning and the end ; Living.
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|a "Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, [this book] is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments--from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement--through the lens of one woman's quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity. When Adrian Shirk's father-in-law has a stroke and loses his ability to speak and walk, she and her husband--both adjuncts in their midtwenties--become his primary caretakers. The stress of these new responsibilities, coupled with navigating America's broken health-care system and ordinary twenty-first-century financial insecurity, propels Shirk into an odyssey through the history and present of American utopian experiments in the hope that they might offer a way forward. Along the way, Shirk seeks solace in her own community of friends, artists, and theologians. They try to imagine a different kind of life, examining what might be replicable within the histories of utopia-making, and what might be doomed. Rather than "no place," Shirk reframes utopia as something that, according to the laws of capital and conquest, shouldn't be able to exist--but does anyway, if only for a moment"--
|c Provided by publisher.
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|a Communitarianism
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|a Belonging (Social psychology)
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