“We Do This at Dancing Rabbit”: Recruitment and Collective Identity Processes in the Ecovillage

Rubin, Zach

doi:10.1177/0891241621994651

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“…In addition, seemingly subtle assumptions about food choices, common values and availability for onsite communal work activities shape understandings of belonging. As Rubin (2021) explains in detail, members of Dancing Rabbit (USA, established 1997) have erected barriers to exclude newcomers they fear might disrupt their collective identity and intentions. Here, residents do not consider their privileges to be the result of structural advantage.…”

Section: Urban Heterogeneity and Social Justicementioning

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URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

Pickerill,

Chitewere,

Cornea

et al. 2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Cities are critical sites for understanding, and potentially ameliorating, the effects of global ecological change, the climate emergency and natural resource depletion. Contemporary cities are sociomaterially connected through global markets, trade and transportation, placing ever‐increasing demands on the natural environment and generating dangerous pollutants and emissions. Current approaches to address these environmental crises are dominated by neoliberal forms of ‘green’ urban development, carbon accounting and techno‐economic solutions, which extend corporate control over cities and tend to entrench inequality. A more strategic approach for enabling ecologically sustainable and equitable urban futures is urgently needed. We present five strategies for urban ecological futures in the global North, derived from qualitative and ethnographic empirical research with international eco‐communities, which open up discussions about how to tackle this challenge by acknowledging the role and potential of: (1) non‐extractive community economies; (2) democratic processes of co‐operative action; (3) social approaches to resource management; (4) participatory collaborative governance; and (5) urban heterogeneity and social justice. We explore the relational, contested and contextual processes through which these approaches could become embedded in urban policy and planning, thereby offering the strategic capacity required to move towards truly sustainable cities.

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URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

Pickerill,

Chitewere,

Cornea

et al. 2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The paradox of collective climate action in rural U.S. ecovillages: ethnographic reflections and perspectives

Schelly,

Rubin,

Lockyer

2024

npj Clim. Action

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Are ecovillages suited to the challenge of climate change and radical social transformation? While often framed as social experiments with the potential to support dramatic social change, we argue that ecovillages should be seen as more than that - complicated sites which both enable and constrain social action in the fight to stem the effects of climate change. As ethnographic researchers with a variety of experiences researching ecovillages, we critically examine some of the factors that affect the power of ecovillages to accomplish this mission, including governance modes that support reduced individual consumption patterns and impact; a commons infrastructure with decreased socioeconomic demands on members, and differing geographic locales with varying socio-political limitations. We conclude this piece by discussing how these factors should inform future research on the transformative nature of ecovillages.

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“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage

Knoll

2024

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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In this study I examine the ritualistic behavior of participants in the intentional community where I live, the Los Angeles Ecovillage, and how that relates to well-being in a collective sense. Studying the ritualistic behavior within the Los Angeles Ecovillage can offer insight into areas that have been perhaps less explored, as in ritual’s relationship to well-being in intentional communities, particularly in the urban context of this community. Furthermore, although it is a factor, psychological well-being in this context is not limited to an individual’s self-reported quality of mental and physical health—it arguably extends to a collective expression of well-being. In describing social alternative approaches to health and well-being related problems posed by societal barriers to human connection, a paradigm may be formed for how intentional community can support psychological needs.

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“We Do This at Dancing Rabbit”: Recruitment and Collective Identity Processes in the Ecovillage

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

URBAN ECOLOGICAL FUTURES: Five Eco‐Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities

The paradox of collective climate action in rural U.S. ecovillages: ethnographic reflections and perspectives

“Re-Inventing How We Live in the City”: Well-being and the Los Angeles Ecovillage

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