Researcher(s):
Michelle Tynan
ENVS course(s): 400 Initiated: September 2011 Completed: May 2012 Go to project site
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This paper aims to situate the urban homesteading movement within the unique geography of Portland, as well as within a historical context of spiritual land-based simplicity movements in the United States. I argue that urban homesteading in Portland is effective at organizing, forming community, and making meaning, and educating through re-skilling, but is ineffective at addressing issues of commodification and like other voluntary simplicity movements, is exclusive to the elite.