Political Science

POLS3473Alternative Political Communities3 ch (3C) [W]
Surveys the organization, political and social rationale, and critiques of alternative political communities, especially those that have responded to the alienating conditions of modernity by 'dropping out' of the mainstream world. Communities covered may include utopian socialist, anarchist, and religious societies of the nineteenth century, the Israli kibbutzim, European co-operative networks, alternative agricultural associations, and global counter-cultural movements down to the present.