This article outlines the various ways members of an intentional community erect barriers to entry in their village and lifestyle, and how they use boundary maintenance tactics to both protect their own personal spheres as well as the integrity of their mission and vision. Members of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (“DR”) seek to create an alternative model for a more just and sustainable world. They face twin challenges in seeking to expand that model through recruitment to their community and retaining the integrity of their unique lifestyle that makes it possible and enjoyable. DR utilizes processes of recruitment and retention to construct and defend a collective identity based in accommodating for personal and political concerns, one characterized specifically by the values of egalitarianism and environmentalism as focal points for their shared lifestyle. Yet they also erect barriers to keep out potential recruits who may compromise that identity.

本文概述了有意社区的成员在村庄和生活方式中竖立进入障碍的各种方式，以及他们如何使用边界维护策略来保护自己的个人领域以及使命和愿景的完整性。跳舞兔子生态家园（“ DR”）的成员寻求为更加公正和可持续的世界创造替代模式。他们在寻求通过招募社区成员来扩展该模型并保持其独特生活方式的完整性（使之成为可能和令人愉悦）方面面临双重挑战。灾难恢复利用招募和保留过程来构建和维护集体身份，以适应个人和政治问题，其中一个以平等主义和环保主义的价值观为特征，以他们共同的生活方式为重点。然而，他们也设置了障碍，以排除可能损害这一身份的潜在新兵。