Everyday life of the riot - The transnationality of French and West German rural communities in the 1960s

该项目调查了20世纪60年代中期到70年代中期的农村社区。这一时期从农村社区的发明和普及，一直延伸到它们逐渐解体，并被社会上更容易接受的合租社区所取代。首先，该项目质疑政治批判与生活社区创新概念之间的相互关系。为什么农村社区是政治变革的先行者而不是结果？农村社区被分析为预期的社会危机的症状，该项目对由对危机的预期和对改革的希望引发的替代实践和创新文化技术感兴趣。其次，该项目有意从跨国视角研究西德和法国的农村社区。干涉、划界和合作的形式明确不限于美国。问题是跨国转移在多大程度上塑造了社区的世界观和生活方式。最后，媒体内容的接受和生产是另一个重点。许多社区居民利用现有媒体了解农村社区和国外的生活方式。因此，与现有的研究不同，该项目将农村社区作为在漫长的1960年代急剧变化的媒体景观的结果。

The project investigates rural communities between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. This period stretches from the invention and popularization of rural communities until their progressive dissolution and replacement by socially more acceptable flat-sharing communities. Firstly, the project questions the interrelationship between political critique and innovative concepts of living communities. Why were the rural communities rather predecessors than results of political changes? Rural communities are analyzed as symptoms of anticipated social crisis and the project is interested in alternative practices and innovative cultural techniques that were triggered by expectations of crisis and hopes for reforms. Secondly, the project researches west German and French rural communities from a deliberately transnational perspective. Forms of interference, delimitation and cooperation are explicitly not restricted to the United States. The question is to what degree transnational transfers forged world views and lifestyles of the communards. Finally, the reception and production of media contents is another focus. Many communards made use of available media in order to inform themselves on rural communities and foreign lifestyles abroad. In distinction from existing research the project thus addresses rural communities as results of a dramatically changing media landscape during the long 1960s.