Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780252043031 Academic Inspection Copy

Shelter from the Machine

Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism
  • ISBN-13: 9780252043031
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Jason G. Strange
  • Price: AUD $271.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 15/04/2020
  • Format: Hardback 328 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
Description
Reviews
Google
Preview
”You're either buried with your crystals or your shotgun.” That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today.Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society'only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.
”An intimate but sprawling, profound but accessible gem of a book, Shelter from the Machine provides a useful and accessible critique of our 'macroparasitic' political economy and a timely reminder that transformative change is as possible as it is necessary.”—Shaunna L. Scott, coeditor of Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking
Google Preview content