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Click 'Buy Journal' link to purchase full journal. Cost: e 10.00. (Individual) Payment through Paypal. Subscriptions (institutions) to Ecopolitics Online Journal: euros 50.00 per year (Winter & Summer Editons) Payments to Dr. Liam Leonard, Sligo IT, Ireland. liam_leonard@yahoo.com (Note: Online only-no hard copies)
Volume 1 No. 1 of the Ecopolitics Online Journal, titled: Utopias, ecotopias and green communities:
Ecopolitics Online Journal Volume 1 No. 1 Autumn/Winter 2007 ISSN 2009-0315 Articles Indexed & Abstracted: EBSCONET
Contents - Articles:
1. Lucy Sargisson: ‘Imperfect Utopias: Green Intentional Communities’ ………………………………………………………………………………… 1 - 24
2. Marius De Geus: ‘Towards an Ecological Art of Living: On the Value of Ecological Utopias for our Future’…………………………………………........................… 25- 49
3. Peter North: ‘Alternative Currencies as Localised Utopian Practice'…………....................................................…. 50- 64
4. Jon Anderson: ‘Elusive Escapes: Everyday Life and Ecotopias’ ………………….............................................64- 82
5. John Barry: ‘Towards a Concrete Utopian Model of Green Political Economy: From Economic Growth and Ecological Modernisation to Economic Security’ …………………………………………………………………….………. 83- 104
6. Liam Leonard: ‘Sustaining Ecotopias: Identity, Activism and Place’ ……………………………………………………….………... 105- 122
7. Laurence Cox: ‘Building Utopia Here and Now:
Left and working-class utopias in Ireland'
……………………..................................................….123- 132
Conference Papers:
8. Mark Garavan: ‘Trying to make sense: Campaigns and the structure of discursive opportunities’. Paper from the 4th Ralahine Utopian Workshop, November 2 2007 …………………………………………………................………….133- 137
Book Reviews:
10. Michael Ewing: Review: Power to the People? Assessing Democracy in Ireland TASC at New Island (2007) ………………………………………...............................….... 138
11. Liam Leonard: Review of Social Movements and Ireland by Linda Connolly and Niamh Hourigan (Eds) (2006) Manchester University Press…………............................................. 139
“Utopias, ecotopias and green communities:
Exploring the patterns of resettlement and living of green idealists”
Since the 17th century people have sought out utopias, establishing communities towards this aim. In the UK and US, educational institutions and planned communes were developed. Many were seeking to establish green alternative lifestyles or agrarian co operatives. Others reclaimed land or settled in areas once populated and then abandoned, providing a new lease of life for rural areas. Ireland has witnessed these patterns of utopian resettlement from the establishment of gaeltachts in the 1920s through to the influx of environmentally minded idealists from the UK or Germany to the west during the 1970s and 1980s. More recently, communities have emerged around protest sites in Rossport, the Glen of the Downs, Carrickmines and Tara and an ‘Ecovillage’ in Tipperary has been established.
This first edition of the Irish Ecopolitics Online Journal will explore the issue of ‘seeking utopias’. Contributors should explore case studies from a broad and international range of community idealism and cooperative building. Rural resettlement, communes, syndicates, workers’ co ops, environmental communities and educational institutions are included within this broad thematic area of focus.
Dr Liam Leonard
Senior Editor, Ecopolitics Online
SSRC, St Declan’s Distillery Rd &
Dept. Sociology & Politics, Moyola House
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Rep. of Ireland
+353(0)91 492295 liam_leonard@yahoo.com,
Ollie Walsh Technical Editor Micromarketing: ollie@micromarketing.ie
ECOPOLITICS ONLINE REVIEW BOARD:
Dr Liam Leonard, NUI Galway: liam_leonard@yahoo.com (Founder & Senior Editor)
Dr John Barry, QU Belfast: j.barry@qub.ac.uk (Senior Editor)
Prof Chris Rootes, University of Kent, UK: c.a.rootes@kent.ac.uk
Prof Hilary Tovey: TC Dublin: toveyh@tcd.ie
Prof Lucy Sargisson Univ of Nottingham: Lucy.Sargisson@nottingham.ac.uk
Prof Tom Moylan, UL: tom.moylan@ul.ie
Dr Laurence Cox, NUI Maynooth: Laurence.cox@nuim.ie
Dr Marius DeGeus, Univ of Leiden: GEUS@FSW.leidenuniv.nl
Michael Ewing, Sligo IT: ewing.michael@itsligo.ie (Book Reviews Editor)
Dr Steve Breyman: Renesselaer Institute, New York: breyms@rpi.edu
Dr Niamh Hourigan, UC Cork: n.hourigan@ucc.ie
Dr Anna Davies, TC Dublin: daviesa@tcd.ie
Dr Peter North, Univ of Liverpool: P.J.North@liverpool.ac.uk
Dr Peter Doran, QU Belfast: p.f.doran@qub.ac.uk
Dr John Karamichas, QU Belfast: j.karamichas@qub.ac.uk
Dr Henrike Rau, NUI Galway henrike.rau@nuigalway.ie
Dr Su ming Khoo, NUI Galway: s.khoo@nuigalway.ie
Dr Martin Phillipson, University of Saskatchewan: martin.phillipson@usask.ca
Dr Martina Prendergast, ECI, NUI Galway: martina.prendergast@nuigalway.ie
Dr Mark Garavan, GMIT Castlebar: mark.garavan@gmit.ie
Vincent Salafia LL.M, TC Dublin: salafia@gmail.com
Anja Murray, An Taisce: anja.murray@antaisce.org
Helena Cruz Gallach, Autonoma Univ Catalonia: helcruz@yahoo.es
Dr Frances Fahey, Univ of Ulster: f.fahy@ulster.ac.uk
Dr Jon Anderson, Univ of Cardiff: andersonj@Cardiff.ac.uk
Joe Fenwick, NUI Galway: joe.fenwick@nuigalway.ie
Dr Denis Linehan UCC denis.linehan@ucc.ie
Dr Carmen Kuhling UL carmen.kuhling@ul.ie
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