Everyday Utopias

Everyday Utopias
Title Everyday Utopias PDF eBook
Author Davina Cooper
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 296
Release 2014-02-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0822377152

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Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and stimulating contexts for considering the terms of social life, of how we live together and are governed. Weaving conceptual theorizing together with social analysis, Davina Cooper examines utopian projects as seemingly diverse as a feminist bathhouse, state equality initiatives, community trading networks, and a democratic school where students and staff collaborate in governing. She draws from firsthand observations and interviews with participants to argue that utopian projects have the potential to revitalize progressive politics through the ways their innovative practices incite us to rethink mainstream concepts including property, markets, care, touch, and equality. This is no straightforward story of success, however, but instead a tale of the challenges concepts face as they move between being imagined, actualized, hoped for, and struggled over. As dreaming drives new practices and practices drive new dreams, everyday utopias reveal how hard work, feeling, ethical dilemmas, and sometimes, failure, bring concepts to life.

Everyday Utopias

Everyday Utopias
Title Everyday Utopias PDF eBook
Author Davina Cooper
Publisher Duke University Press Books
Pages 0
Release 2013-12-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780822355557

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Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and stimulating contexts for considering the terms of social life, of how we live together and are governed. Weaving conceptual theorizing together with social analysis, Davina Cooper examines utopian projects as seemingly diverse as a feminist bathhouse, state equality initiatives, community trading networks, and a democratic school where students and staff collaborate in governing. She draws from firsthand observations and interviews with participants to argue that utopian projects have the potential to revitalize progressive politics through the ways their innovative practices incite us to rethink mainstream concepts including property, markets, care, touch, and equality. This is no straightforward story of success, however, but instead a tale of the challenges concepts face as they move between being imagined, actualized, hoped for, and struggled over. As dreaming drives new practices and practices drive new dreams, everyday utopias reveal how hard work, feeling, ethical dilemmas, and sometimes, failure, bring concepts to life.

Everyday Soviet Utopias

Everyday Soviet Utopias
Title Everyday Soviet Utopias PDF eBook
Author Anna Alekseyeva
Publisher Routledge
Pages 467
Release 2019-02-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1351019767

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This book explores how intellectuals of the later Soviet decades – the 1970s and 1980s – sought to bring about the socialist utopian world. It argues that the last two decades of the Soviet Union were not characterised by state withdrawal and malaise, as some scholars have argued; attempts to envisage and enact Utopia remained as imaginative and creative as ever. The book considers what these utopian ideas looked like through housing schemes, layouts of districts and cities, design of objects and interiors, and proposals for the organisation of family and social life. Relating developments in the Soviet Union to evolving social theory and postmodernism more broadly, the book draws transnational parallels between the intellectual history of east and west in the late twentieth century.

Cruising Utopia

Cruising Utopia
Title Cruising Utopia PDF eBook
Author José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 244
Release 2009-11-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0814757286

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Sustainable Utopias

Sustainable Utopias
Title Sustainable Utopias PDF eBook
Author Jennifer L. Allen
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 369
Release 2022-03-08
Genre History
ISBN 0674249143

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To reclaim a sense of hope for the future, German activists in the late twentieth century engaged ordinary citizens in innovative projects that resisted alienation and disenfranchisement. By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense of crisis after the 1973 global oil shock appeared to doom dreams of a better world. The eventual victory of capitalism and, seemingly, liberal democracy relieved some fears but exchanged them for complacency and cynicism. Not, however, in West Germany. Jennifer Allen showcases grassroots activism of the 1980s and 1990s that envisioned a radically different society based on community-centered politicsÑa society in which the democratization of culture and power ameliorated alienation and resisted the impotence of end-of-history narratives. BerlinÕs History Workshop liberated research from university confines by providing opportunities for ordinary people to write and debate the story of the nation. The Green Party made the politics of direct democracy central to its program. Artists changed the way people viewed and acted in public spaces by installing objects in unexpected environments, including the Stolpersteine: paving stones, embedded in residential sidewalks, bearing the names of Nazi victims. These activists went beyond just trafficking in ideas. They forged new infrastructures, spaces, and behaviors that gave everyday people real agency in their communities. Undergirding this activism was the environmentalist concept of sustainability, which demanded that any alternative to existing society be both enduring and adaptable. A rigorous but inspiring tale of hope in action, Sustainable Utopias makes the case that it is still worth believing in human creativity and the labor of citizenship.

The Wonder of Learning

The Wonder of Learning
Title The Wonder of Learning PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 215
Release 2011
Genre Education
ISBN 9788887960662

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"This large exhibition ... recounts the development and innovative energy of Reggio Emilia's educational work. Five sections present some of the latest projects in Reggio Emilia's infant-toddler centres and preschools, offering a broad, interdisciplinary kaleidoscope spanning various 'languages' and media." -- back cover.

Illusive Utopia

Illusive Utopia
Title Illusive Utopia PDF eBook
Author Suk-Young Kim
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 400
Release 2010-03-11
Genre History
ISBN 0472117084

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A rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda—in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films