- Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history Resource Type: Article Published: 1993 A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
- Alternative Americas
An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 A history of decentralist and co-operative alternatives in the United States, centering especially on the work of Ralph Borsodi.
- Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 A history of Black Mountain College (1933-57), an experimental school which pioneered many educational, cultural, and artistic innovations.
- Building Social Change Communities
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Skills for creating and maintaining a collective or cooperative group, especially living communities. Excellent, concise chapters on consensus decision making, facilitation and conflict resolution.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Central American Women Speak for Themselves
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 A dossier focusing on the participation of women in the popular movements and revolutionary organizations in Central America. Contains transations from newspapers, pamphlets, documents, interviews and reprints of already-published material.
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- Circles of Strength
Community Alternatives to Alienation Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965 Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Communities Directory
A Guide to Cooperative Living Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 This work lists 540 North American communities and 70 abroad, including contact information and a full self-description.
- Community Dreams
Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
- Community Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources Resource Type: Website A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to community issues in the Sources directory for the media.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Deep Ecology
Living as if Nature Mattered Resource Type: Book
- Egalitarian community
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Group of people who have chosen to live together, with egalitarianism as one of their core values.
- The Field of Magic
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 Field of Magic is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotike.s dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four years work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows.
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- The Future of American Politics
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965
- A Guide To Cooperative Alternatives
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Edited by "Communities, Journal of Cooperative Living," this book is a resource guide of ideas, resources, references and contacts for people interested in living and working cooperatively. Includes well-annotated section on politics, decision making, education, community organizing and much more.
- Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
- How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
- In Defence of Diversity
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 An essay on immigration.
- Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Interactions
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 These are nots of remarks made at an all-day consultation between New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
- Investing in a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 The Cerro Gordo community.
- The joyful community
An account of the Bruderhof, a communcal movement now in its third generation Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 An in-depth study of the Bruderhof community.
- Kommune Niederkaufungen
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article One of the largest intentional communities in Germany.
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Minetown, Milltown, Railtown
Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry Resource Type: Book A sociological description of life in company towns.
- Moffatt, Gary
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Canadian anarchist and activist.
- Nudist community
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article A nudist community (or in Europe, naturist community) is an intentional community comprising nudists/naturists who choose to live together on a permanent basis where it is understood that no clothes will be worn.
- Pragmatics of Community Organization
First Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control! Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
- A Question of Place
Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 Global capitalism relentlessly displaces people and abandons places because it views local communities, cities, and even nations as inconveniences in the path of progress. Place-consciousness, on the other hand, encourages us to come together around common, local experiences and organize around our hopes for the future of our communities and cities. While global capitalism doesn't give a damn about the people or the natural environment of any particular place because it can always move on to other people and other places, place-based civic activism is concerned about the health and safety of people and places.
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Saving the Countryside
Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
- Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- Shifting the frame: Communicating progressive ideas
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 How can activists make an effective case for social justice in an atmosphere of cutbacks & belt-tightening? Connexions' Ulli Diemer leads a discussion Sept 24 on how to build on shared values to communicate a positive vision for change.
- Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
Original title: History of American Socialisms Resource Type: Book Published: 1966 Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
- Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Resource Type: Book
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Richard Sennett contends that "living with people who differ -- racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically -- is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city."
- Toward Sustainable Communities
Resources for Citizens and their Governments Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
- Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
- Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article The strains that take their toll on community groups.
- Wildness
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 The creativity and conflict that arises when queer avant-garde performance artists intersect with a community of transgender immigrant women at historic Los Angeles bar Silver Platter.
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