The revival of political imagination : utopias as methodology /: utopias as methodology. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Teppo Eskelinen.
• Editors: Eskelinen, Teppo
• 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
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Zed Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 173 pages)
• Subjects: 321/.07; Utopias; Political science; Research methods: general; Political science; Utopias; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786999580; 1786999587; 9781786999566; 1786999560; 9781786999573; 1786999579
• Related ISBNs: 9781786999597; 1786999595
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2021).
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