Utopia : social theory and the future / [edited] by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester

Published:: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Copyright Date:: ©2012
Physical Description:: ix, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:: Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971- and Tester, Keith, 1960-

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Series:

Classical and contemporary social theory

Contents:

Introduction: utopia as a topic for social theory / Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester -- Part I. Theoretical musings. Utopia and the end of history / Henk de Berg -- What is concrete about Ernst Bloch's 'concrete utopia'? / Peter Thompson -- Dreams, visions and utopias--romantic and realist revolutionaries and the idyllic / Arpad Szakolczai -- Liquid modern 'utopia'--Zygmunt Bauman on the transformation of utopia / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Houellebecq's dystopia--a case of the elective affinity between sociology and literature / Anders Petersen and Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Part II. Theories in motion. Utopia and criminology / Peter Young -- Utopianism, dystopianism and ecological thought / Kate Rigby -- Social movement as utopian practice / Andrew Jamison -- Virtual utopias and dystopias--the cultural imaginary of the internet / Majid Yar -- Utopias of mobility / Ole B. Jensen and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen.

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ISBN:

9781409406990 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1409406997 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781409407003 (ebk)
1409407004 (ebk)

Collection:

Arthur O. Lewis Utopia Collection.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Rare Books copy: Gift of Lyman Tower Sargent; 2012.

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