I think documentary would be great to capture broader audience and to facilitate contemplation on the relation between modern/utopia lifestyle.
This sketch proposes to use the project as an educational module for kids "to learn alternative practices for producing food, building residences, coexisting with the
environment and with the rest of the community in a sustainable and reciprocal manner". I think it would be a great idea, as many schools have already been participating in promotion of sustainable lifestyle.
Santiago writes "It (the ethnograhy) introduces the challenge of sustainability and provides context that legitimate the relevance of utopian projects to the modern world". In answering the question "how is the critism of the text performed", Santiago adds there are different scholarly views toward Utopianism. The author presents it
"as a transformation according to contemporary values rather than a failure...it presents the modern world as opposed to the object of analysis, to the ethos of the intentional communities". I'm very interested in reading more of the communities' understanding of Utopianism and how they position utopia and modernity in a temporality frame.
Theoretical foundation follows research background introduction, then moves into empirical evidences while constantly connect back to theory
The ethography describes the everyday practices of intentional communities and ecovillages in Western North Carolina, which the author augues produced a cultural critique towards current socioeconomic institutions
The text is a PhD dissertation and does not include a cover