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and the United States. Nuckolls is the author of The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire (University ofWisconsin Press) and Culture: A Problem that Cannot be Solved (University of Wisconsin Press), among others.“The Kommuna Impulse: Collective Mechanisms in Early Soviet Russia, 1917-1932”Andy Willimott, University of East AngliaThis paper assesses Soviet Russia‘s interaction with the „kommuna impulse‟ – the desire to employ thecommune and communal living as a means of advancing socialist visions. Focusing on the social ambitions of‗leftist‘ theoreticians, architectural designs for collective living, and the spontaneous bytovye kommuny(domestic communes) established by young activists across Russia after 1917, this paper shows how the ideaof the kommuna - the ‗cell of the future‘ - was tied to the socio-cultural revolution of early Soviet Russia. It willalso be argued that these ventures cannot be understood merely as examples of isolated utopias. In each case,everyday domestic life was turned into a socialist battleground. Thus, we can shed new light not only on alacuna in the study of communal experimentation but on the true dynamism of early Soviet Russia.Andy Willimott is a Ph.D candidate in history at the University of East Anglia. He has previously presented atthe World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies and at the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He is the author of ―The Kommuna Impulse: CollectiveMechanisms and the Communitarian activist in Early Soviet Russia,‖ forthcoming in Revolutionary Russia.“Twelve Tribes Communities: Becoming a Confederation”Ed Wiseman and Jean Swantko Wiseman, Twelve Tribes CommunitiesHaving begun in 1972, there are now approximately fifty Twelve Tribes‘ Communities in nine countries. We arelearning to live as the Book of Acts, chapters 2 and 4, in Scripture directs. Nearly forty years old, our firstgeneration is ―taking the baton‖ to carry on the faith of their parents. This is not without struggle and difficultieson every front. In the midst of the battle we are becoming a confederation of twelve self-governing tribes with anemerging culture that reflects this structure. A confederation best describes our ―architecture‖. We build with―the builders‖ – those ‗born in her‘ and those who come at any age. We would like to present an introduction toone of our communities, Stoneybrook Farm, in northern Virginia as a prototype. It is an organic farmcommunity, currently poised to open a Farm Store to the public and looking toward a small café in the samevillage. The Wisemans will present and discuss what makes our communities ―tick‖ and how we look forwardtoward the future.Ed Wiseman has practiced constitutional, family, and criminal defense law for thirty years, focusing inthe area of freedom of religion and association. He is the author of several papers on anti-cultism asapplied to the history of the Twelve Tribes of Israel Messianic Communities located in ten countries. Hispublications are found in the Social Justice Research Journal (2000); in ―Regulating Religion: CaseStudies from Around the Globe” edited by James Richardson. (2004); and in a forthcoming chapter,Patterns of Targeting Nontraditional Religions: Parallels in the State Raids on the Twelve Tribes and theFLDS in ―Saints under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints” ed.James Richardson and Stuart Wright (2010).Session 6-BEscape: Accounts of FLDS Disaffiliation(Thrall‟s Opera House)30
This panel will provide a scholarly examination of several popular accounts of FLDS disaffiliation, includingthose of Dorothy Allred Solomon, Elissa Wall and Carolyn Jessop. Panelists will discuss themes of power,secrecy, victimization, and religious freedom as they play out within FLDS communal life and the broaderculture. Presenters will keep their papers short in order to allow time for the Discussant, Matthew Grow, tocomment on the three papers.“Power, Secrecy, and the Derailing of Family Life in Dorothy Allred Solomon‟s Predators, Preys, andOther Kinfolk”Susan Love Brown, Florida Atlantic UniversitySusan Love Brown is professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She is a politicaland psychological anthropologist with an interest in intentional communities. She is the editor of IntentionalCommunity: An Anthropological Perspective and a member of the Board of Directors of the Communal StudiesAssociation.“The Burden of Audience and Elissa Wall‟s Stolen Innocence”Etta M. Madden, Missouri State UniversityEtta Madden is a professor of English at Missouri State University where she teaches courses in Americanliterature and cultural studies. Her research interests include autobiography, food studies, literacy theory,religion and literature, and science and literature. Her works include Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature andLiteracies, and Eating in Eden: Food in American Utopias. She is a member of the CSA Board.“Agency and Attributions in Carolyn Jessop‟s Escape and Triumph”Deborah Altus, Washburn UniversityDeborah Altus is a professor at Washburn University. She has been involved in communal studies for overtwenty years, although her main area of scholarship is Gerontology. Whenever her work allows (although notoften enough for her taste!), she combines the two endeavors by studying shared housing for older people.Recently, she studied the Greenhouse model of long-term care, a model that the innovator refers to as an―intentional community.‖ Deborah is a board member of the International Communal Studies Association, amember of the Editorial Review Board of the Fellowship for Intentional Community, and a past CSA president.Session 6-CPreservation of Historic Communal Sites(Working Men‟s Institute)“Rebuilding Oneida: Ideology, Architecture, and Community Planning in the Oneida CommunityLimited, 1880-1935”Thomas A. Guiler, Syracuse University, CSA Starting Scholar Award Winner, 2010On January 1, 1881 the Oneida Community, founded in the ferment of social reform earlier in the century,dissolved into the Oneida Community Limited (OCL), a joint stock corporation. This initiated a period ofprofound economic and social change in the former utopian living experiment. With a new leader and ideology,the OCL embraced its communitarian heritage and at the same time strove for success in the business world.Combining themes ordinarily studied separately--social reform, business, city planning, and architecture--this31
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