The revival of political imagination : utopia as methodology /
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London, UK :
Zed Books Ltd,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: DIAGNOSIS
- 1: Introduction: Utopias and the Revival of Imagination
- The Specificity of Absolutist Utopias
- Towards a Methodological Understanding of Utopianism
- Utopianism Facilitating Transformation
- The Purpose of This Book and the Content of the Chapters
- Notes
- References
- 2: Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present
- Utopia as Critical Counter-Image of the Present
- Dynamic Utopias
- Utopian Counter-Practice: the Crack
- Cracks in Walls: Interstitial Strategy
- Conclusion
- References
- 3: The Privatization and Recollectivization of Hope
- The State of Utopias: Anxiety
- Mechanisms of the Privatization of Utopias: the Subjectification, Ethos and Life-Narrative of Entrepreneurship
- Mechanisms of the Privatization of Utopias: Retrotopia and Neoliberalism
- The Role of a Social Scientist
- Conclusions
- References
- PART II: CASE STUDIES AND UTOPIAN METHODOLOGIES
- 4: Quilombist Utopias: An Ethnographic Reflection
- Runaway Slaves or Diversified Local Economies?
- The Method of Hope and Quilombist Knowledge
- Kilombo Tenondé: Capoeira Angola with Permaculture
- Anarchist and Afrocentric Currents in Quilombo Cecília
- Quilombist Hopes
- Notes
- References
- 5: Social Dreaming and Uses of Narrativity, Tellability and Experientiality in Literary Dystopia
- Literary Dystopia as a Contemporary Form of Utopian Thinking
- The Handmaid's Tale: 'A Canary in the Coal Mine'?
- 'What I Need Is a Perspective': Dystopia against the Normal and Everyday
- Writing and Reading Literary Dystopia as an 'Act of Hope'
- Conclusions
- Note
- References
- 6: Utopian Education: May the Hope Be with You
- Forward Dawning
- From Utopian Pedagogy Came Forward Movement
- From Despair to Hope: Utopian Education in Practice
- Dynamic Connection of Hope and Despair
- References
- PART III: PERSPECTIVES ON UTOPIAS
- 7: The Significance of Humor and Laughter for Utopian Thought
- Laughing at Utopia
- Laughing with Utopia
- Laughing in Utopia
- Endgame
- Notes
- References
- 8: Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible
- Modernist Architecture as a Degenerate Utopia?
- Utopia Turned Ideology
- From Abstract Utopianism to Experimental Utopias
- Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible
- Notes
- References
- 9: Democracy as Utopia: On Locating Radical Roots
- Limited Utopian Concepts
- Utopian Democracy
- Hegemonic Democracy as a Hybrid Form
- Limitations to Democratic Politics
- The Implications of Liberalism
- Open Future and the Significance of Imagination
- Saving the Utopian Potential of Concepts and Ways Forward
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index