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New Pioneers: The BacktotheLand Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future,Used
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"[P]ractically everyone I know is nursing fantasies about escaping the life they're trapped in and creating one that makes more sense," writes the editor of Utne Reader in a recent issue. "The people I most admire, though, are those who actually do itwho break free and pursue a higher calling no matter how great the risk."New Pioneers is about one such group of peoplethe hundreds of thousands of urban North Americans who over the past three decades have given up their city or suburban homes for a few acres of land in the countryside.Jeffrey Jacob's new pioneers are ordinary people who have tried to break away from the mainstream consumer culture and return to smalltown and rural America. He traces the development of the movement and identifies seven different kinds of backtothelander: the weekender, country romantic, purist, country entrepreneur, pensioner, microfarmer, and apprentice. From over 1,300 survey responses, interviews, and indepth case studies, at both the regional and national levels, of representative backtothelanders, Jacob analyzes their values, use of appropriate technology, family division of labor on their acreages, and predisposition toward environmental activism.Jacob finds that backtothelanders for the most part are not completely independent of the mainstream economy, and consequently, their lives do reflect the contradictions between the available conveniences of a hightechnology culture and the movement's goals of selfreliant labor. He analyzes their ambivalent attitudes toward technologyhoes and shovels versus minihydroelectric systems, wood stoves versus microwave ovens, and so on. After examining the experiences of the backtothecountry people who live on the margins of a postindustrial society, Jacob creates a clearer appreciation of the preconditions necessary to translate the idea of sustainable living into concrete action on a societywide scale.While New Pioneers describes an important social movement, it also shows how far a group of highly motivated individuals and families can go, by themselves, in breaking away from the prevailing consumer culture. The dilemmas, frustrations, adaptations, and triumphs of these neohomesteaders offer valuable insights to anyone contemplating a move "back to the land."
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