Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0065030

Zusammenfassung

The project analyzes radical utopian communities in the first half of the twentieth century. It investigates communes in various places of the non-Western world, connecting South Africa, Japan, and Jamaica with Palestine and Manchuria. All chosen case studies differed in terms of political positions and religious orientations. Yet all of them developed surprisingly similar strategies to cope with the challenges of the modern world. They were both retreat and hub for activists, reformers, and revolutionaries, facilitating the meeting of people and sharing of ideas and experiences worldw...