Alternative Communities
Journals
Journal for the Study of Radicalism - Michigan State University
Journal of Controversial Ideas
Examples
- Anarchism in Spain
- French island
- Australian West Coast shanty towns
- Selwood, John, and Roy Jones. “Western Australian Battlers and Coastal Squatter Settlements: Heritage from Below Versus Regulation from Above.” Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays 13 (n.d.): 78–85.
- Other informal settlements
- Mandy alternative communes
- Ecovillages/communes/intentional communities
- Transition towns
- Bioregionalism
- Lynch, Tom, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster. The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place. Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- Bioregionalism: A Model for a Self-Sufficient and Democratic Economy
- Cascadia & Bioregionalism
- Indian grassroots practices
- Informal economies
- Gibson-Graham, J. K. A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- Solarpunk
- Baynes-Rock, Marcus. Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
From Anarchism
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Anarchism is interesting as a source of practical examples that one can try... Relates to eco-socialism, etc.
- Burdon, Peter, and James Martel. “Environmentalism and an Anarchist Research Method.” In Research Methods in Environmental Law, edited by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Victoria Brooks, 316–37. Edward Elgar, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784712570.
- Pellow, David N. Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement. Minneapolis: University of Michigan Press, 2014. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1780106.