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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Feeling at home in lonely cities: an emotional history of the West German urban commune movement during the long 1970s
Beteiligte:
Häberlen, Joachim C.
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021
Erschienen in:Urban History
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/s0963926819000841
ISSN:
0963-9268;
1469-8706
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In the 1970s, a commune movement emerged in West German cities. The article explores this movement as an attempt to create spaces for feeling ‘at home’ in cities that many people perceived to be alienating. After providing a brief overview of the development of the commune movement, the article explores the new domesticity that emerged in communes. It first discusses the emotional and political ambitions that motivated mostly left-leaning students to move into communes, and then explores the practical attempts to create such spaces for feelings, how such attempts succeeded but also encountered many difficulties. The article thereby contributes to an understanding of what it takes for people to feel at home in cities.</jats:p>