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Ways We Live: Exploring Community (Series)
Community Animals
Leading thinkers explore community, work, time, values, and change.
26 minutes
Color
Closed Captioned
Grade Level: 7-10, College, Adult
US Release Date: 1997
Copyright Date: 1997
ISBN (VHS): 1-56029-691-7
Directed by Heather MacAndrew & David Springbett
Produced by Asterisk Productions
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"Politically astute, without being partisan...compelling." Alex Strachan, Vancouver Sun
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What's happening to our sense of community? Even though humans are social animals who need interaction and a sense of belonging to survive, we have created a society -- in the industrialized countries at least -- where people are often too busy to build the kind of communities they say they long for. Women, in particular, feel they lack time to develop the relationships that make a community grow.
In COMMUNITY ANIMALS, some of today's leading thinkers, such as author Alan Durning, social historian Stephanie Coontz, Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez of the New Road Map Foundation, and Sarah van Gelder, editor of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, explore fundamental questions of work, time, values, change and how we will live together in the next millennium.
Other titles in the series are:
Virtually Intentional - Finding community in the cloister, a commune, and in cyberspace.
Community by Design - Good design of houses and neighborhoods builds community.
Making Shelter - My Home with Others - Co-ops and co-housing provide new models for building community.
Reclaiming Community - Communities in Toronto and Oakland take back and revitalize public spaces.
Ageing with Community - The search for community and independence as we grow old.
The Boundaries of Change - Cities cope with changing demographics.
Finding Us and Them - Physically and mentally challenged people find community.
On the Road - RV owners leave their home towns and build their own communities.
Maps with Teeth - Bioregional mapping by locals communicates a sense of place and regional identity.
Study guide available
Awards:
Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Reviews:
"You can't keep community down. Give people a little encouragement and a few tools, and they'll recreate the sense of community spirit in any available cracks and crannies in our otherwise alienated culture...These stories...are upbeat, encouraging - and replicable." Communities
"This is not an indulgent journey into nostalgia, but an exploration of the people we have become, touching on our diversity as well as our similarities." Orion Afield
"What (the producers) found was a growing belief and faith in the community as the cure for social ills like poverty, crime and estrangement from other people...It is precisely because WAYS WE LIVE is politically astute, without being partisan, that it is so compelling." Alex Strachan, Vancouver Sun
Related Subjects:
Anthropology
Community
Social Work
Social Psychology
Sociology
Urban and Regional Planning
Values
Women's Studies
Related Titles:
Work & Time: A program about stress. How we can overcome being over-worked and out of time?
ReInventing The World: Three 50-minute programs on creating sustainable cities, food systems, and lifestyles.
Affluenza: Diagnoses the "disease" of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living.
Escape from Affluenza: Simple living and its rewards.
Subdivide and Conquer: Suburban sprawl: causes and remedies.
Living the Good Life: A portrait of the daily life of America's most famous back-to-the-landers.
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