A (More) Livable Community: Community, Cooperative Economics, and Resistance At A Student Housing Cooperative In College Park
dc.contributor.advisor | Hanhardt, Christina | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Medvedev, Anton Andrei | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | American Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-22T06:02:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-22T06:02:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Radical thinkers and activists have put forth “building community” as a political alternative, but what does “building community” actually entail? This thesis examines how a student cohousing group in College Park builds community in a rapidly changing college town. The group was founded to help house low-income tenants in the face of increasingly unaffordable housing. I ask how the group creates organizational structures and personal relationships that give rise to alternative housing opportunities. I examine how community shapes, and is shaped by, features of cohousing such as democratic decision-making and cooperative economics. I give particular attention to tensions that occur within the cooperative due to faults in democratic decision-making, the ability to perform cooperative duties, and the demographic makeup of the cooperative. Finally, I ask what transformative features, if any, the community possesses in the face of the city’s development. | en_US |
dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/M2RB7K | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18309 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject.pqcontrolled | American studies | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | college park | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | community | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | cooperative economics | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | cooperative housing | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | student housing | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | university of maryland | en_US |
dc.title | A (More) Livable Community: Community, Cooperative Economics, and Resistance At A Student Housing Cooperative In College Park | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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