“I gave up the struggle for theoretical freedom and began to live freely”: Back-to-the-landers, Coalition building, and the Slocan Valley Resource Society, 1973-1979. - Free Audiobook

Place and Replace 2010

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Citation: Janovicek, Nancy. "“I gave up the struggle for theoretical freedom and began to live freely”: Back-to-the-landers, Coalition building, and the Slocan Valley Resource Society, 1973-1979." Winnipeg, MB. 17 September 2010.

Bio: Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary

Abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s, 400 back-to-the-landers moved to the Slocan Valley. The people that moved introduced global ideas, family forms and lifestyles that upset many long-term residents of the area. Opposition developed to their lifestyle and the community’s attempts to build alternative services and institutions in the area. In this paper, Janovicek deals with articles written for The Arrow, an alternative newspaper published in Castlegar from 1971-1978. She argues that the articles are illustrative of how back-to-the-landers developed political strategies based on a deep understanding of the political culture and place where they lived.