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Revisiting 1960s Countercultural Back-to-the-Land Migration and Its Millennial Resurgence

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The Global Sixties, Volume: 15, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 43 - 78

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“Getting one’s head together” by attempting to go “back-to-the-land” – move into the countryside to live more “naturally” – remains a stereotype of “hippies” from the long Sixties. Yet, while studies of this phenomenon exist, both academic and as memoirs, it has not been researched in detail as much...

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