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Heaven Is A Place On Earth

Adrian Shirk

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  • 352 sidor
  • 2023
An exploration of American ideas of utopia through the lens of one millennial's quest to live a more communal life under late-stage capitalism

Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, Heaven Is a Place on Earth is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments-from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement-through the lens of one woman's quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity.

When Adrian Shirk's father-in-law has a stroke and loses his ability to speak and walk, she and her husband-both adjuncts in their midtwenties-become his primary caretakers. The stress of these new responsibilities, coupled with navigating America's broken health-care system and ordinary twenty-first-century financial insecurity, propels Shirk into an odyssey through the history and present of American utopian experiments in the hope that they might offer a way forward.

Along the way, Shirk seeks solace in her own community of friends, artists, and theologians. They try to imagine a different kind of life, examining what might be replicable within the histories of utopia-making, and what might be doomed. Rather than "no place," Shirk reframes utopia as something that, according to the laws of capital and conquest, shouldn't be able to exist-but does anyway, if only for a moment.

  • Författare: Adrian Shirk
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781640093577
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 352
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-12-05
  • Förlag: Catapult