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The Revival of Political Imagination: Utopia as Methodology

Editat de Teppo Eskelinen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2022
The Revival of Political Imagination offers a unique examination of the methodological aspects of utopia. Discussing utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces - rather than in terms of its content - this volume analyses the function of utopias, to develop utopias as methodology and to show how instrumental utopian modes of thought can be in such diverse fields such as education, labour, and housing.Including discussions of traditional and contemporary utopias, as well as various forms of expression of utopian hope, from literature to social science and cultural practices, The Revival of Political Imagination is both analytical and practical in its elucidation of how political theory can function to foster our imaginative skills.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780755649945
ISBN-10: 075564994X
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides a number of new perspectives to the practical uses of utopia, showing how social criticism, collective action and democracy will suffer, if utopias as a mode of social thought are lost.

Notă biografică

Teppo Eskelinen is Senior lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. A philosopher, Eskelinen has also worked as a lecturer in social and public policy. His research interests include political economy and global justice broadly understood, and he has also done research on radical democracy, classics of heterodox economics and economic alternatives.

Cuprins

Part I: Diagnosis 1. Introduction: Utopias and the revival of imagination 2. Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present 3. The Privatisation and Recollectivisation of Hope Part II: Case Studies and Utopian Methodologies 4. Quilombist Utopias: An Ethnographic Reflection 5. Social Dreaming and Uses of Narrativity, Tellability and Experientiality in Literary Dystopia 6. Utopian Education - May the Hope Be With You Part III: Perspectives on Utopias 7. The Significance of Humour and Laughter for Utopian Thought 8. Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible 9. Democracy as Utopia: On Locating Radical Roots

Recenzii

'A valuable contribution to contemporary scholarly debates in both Utopian Studies and the social sciences more broadly. Its individual case studies provide a wide-ranging and engaging exploration of the contemporary relevance of the "imaginative skill" of utopian dreaming as a means of facilitating social transformation.
This vibrant collection covers the bases for a re-energized, "re-radicalized" utopian political imagination. The contributors offer a fresh and wide-ranging use of the utopian method to imagine social alternatives and shore up collective struggles against global dystopian tendencies. A timely example of the kind of social critique from a utopian point of view we desperately need.
An important contribution to contemporary scholarship on utopian and dystopian theory and practice.

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Analyses the function of utopias and utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces, to develop utopias as methodology.