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Hispanic Utopias - A Historical Reader

by Emilio J. Gallardo-Saborido, Hugo Garcia e Juan Pro

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 «This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to contemporary dreams and dystopias. The Western notion of utopia was born of Iberian imperialism in the Americas: Hispanic Utopias traces its complex, contradictory destinies from the origins of the Hispanic empire through waves of revolution and resistance among the diverse peoples and beliefs of those vast territories. This is an engaging read, offering a fascinating array of translated texts; concise, clear introductions to orientate the reader; and many provocations to thought.» (Andrew Ginger, Professor of Comparative Studies, Vice Provost for International Engagement, Northeastern University. Oficial de la Orden de Isabel la Católica) «This judiciously edited and much-needed volume succeeds in its ambitious aim of reconstructing the utopian tradition of Spanish-speaking peoples over the past five centuries. Students and scholars alike will find much in its pages to delight and to provoke vigorous and thoughtful political and historical debate. Warmly recommended.» (Laurence Davis, Senior Lecturer in Government and Politics, University College Cork and co-editor of Anarchism and Utopianism and The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guins The Dispossessed) This historical reader offers a survey and an anthology of utopian speculation written in Spanish and other Hispanic languages since the 16th century. It not only provides further proof that this genre has been a key intellectual tool for imagining and debating the modern world, but also dismantles the cliché that Hispanic societies have been refractory to utopia by illustrating both the fertility of utopian writing in Hispanic languages and the links of that writing with local archetypes such as Don Quixote. The present volume expands the utopian canon and the very concept of utopian literature in two directions: incorporating the rich and as yet little studied work of authors writing in Spanish, Catalan and Galician, it simultaneously draws attention to the speculative and anticipatory content of a variety of non-fictional texts which have tended to be overlooked by existing scholarship.
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Hispanic Utopias - A Historical Reader

by Emilio J. Gallardo-Saborido, Hugo Garcia e Juan Pro

~~53,00€~~ 47,70€ 10% OFF

 «This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to contemporary dreams and dystopias. The Western notion of utopia was born of Iberian imperialism in the Americas: Hispanic Utopias traces its complex, contradictory destinies from the origins of the Hispanic empire through waves of revolution and resistance among the diverse peoples and beliefs of those vast territories. This is an engaging read, offering a fascinating array of translated texts; concise, clear introductions to orientate the reader; and many provocations to thought.» (Andrew Ginger, Professor of Comparative Studies, Vice Provost for International Engagement, Northeastern University. Oficial de la Orden de Isabel la Católica) «This judiciously edited and much-needed volume succeeds in its ambitious aim of reconstructing the utopian tradition of Spanish-speaking peoples over the past five centuries. Students and scholars alike will find much in its pages to delight and to provoke vigorous and thoughtful political and historical debate. Warmly recommended.» (Laurence Davis, Senior Lecturer in Government and Politics, University College Cork and co-editor of Anarchism and Utopianism and The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guins The Dispossessed) This historical reader offers a survey and an anthology of utopian speculation written in Spanish and other Hispanic languages since the 16th century. It not only provides further proof that this genre has been a key intellectual tool for imagining and debating the modern world, but also dismantles the cliché that Hispanic societies have been refractory to utopia by illustrating both the fertility of utopian writing in Hispanic languages and the links of that writing with local archetypes such as Don Quixote. The present volume expands the utopian canon and the very concept of utopian literature in two directions: incorporating the rich and as yet little studied work of authors writing in Spanish, Catalan and Galician, it simultaneously draws attention to the speculative and anticipatory content of a variety of non-fictional texts which have tended to be overlooked by existing scholarship.
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Terrestrial Ecotopias - Multispecies Flourishing In And Beyond The Capitalocene

by Heather Alberro

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 This book offers a transdisciplinary critical and imaginative examinations of key contemporary manifestations of ecotopianism as â€˜fervent refusalsâ€™ of the ecocidal colonial-capitalist status quo.
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Economic Inequality - Utopian Explorations

by Donald Morris

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 «This relevant, clearly defined study isnt constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronological comparisons to well-known and lesser-known American utopias in other periods; international contexts from non-American authors; and interpretive perspectives by utopian specialists, political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists. But the books most striking quality is the variety of reforms identified and discussed. This variety greatly enhances our understanding of utopists war on inequality.» (Kenneth M. Roemer, Emeritus Fellow, University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Author of The Obsolete Necessity, Utopian Audiences, and (ed.) America as Utopia «Utopian alternatives to current, persistent and increasing inequality matter: as William Blake said, What is now proved was once, only imagind, and so Donald Morris examines a wealth of possibilities, some outlandish, but all conceivable, and many eminently feasible, from a tradition of literary and imaginative forms of political and social theory. A hopeful and invigorating read.» (Tom Boland, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University College Cork) This work explores what utopian writers have said about economic inequality. Its transdisciplinary focus is literary utopiasnovels of social theoryby authors seeking solutions to the problems of economic inequality. The work challenges our moral assumptions about economic inequalityits potential for resolutionor its inevitability and the ultimate bifurcation of society. It is not an economic treatise but an exploration in social philosophy in its utopian expressions. Economic inequality sets arbitrary limits on whose contributions will benefit society, thereby squandering talent, limiting opportunities, and stifling competitioncapriciously restricting the pool of competitorsby class or gender or race. As utopian writers envision a future where the extremes of poverty and wealth have been tempered, it is instructive to explore the instruments they employ; by what measures have they defeated poverty or diminished the threats boundless fortunes pose, thereby revitalizing society?
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The English Utopia

by A.L. Morton

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 The English Utopia remains provocative and critically engaging more than seventy years after its original publication. This edition brings to light Mortonâ€™s complex role as Left political activist, historian, scholarly catalyst and cultural criticâ€"a paradigmatic instance of the engaged and public intellectual.
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Transgressive Utopianism - Essays In Honor Of Lucy Sargisson

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 .This volume honors Lucy Sargissonâ€™s contribution to the field of utopian studies.
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Children'S Voices In Politics

by Michael S. Cummings

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 Is the official political silencing of children in a democracy rational and just, or is it arbitrary and capricious? How might democratic polities benefit from the political engagement and activism of young people? Michael Cummings argues that allowing children equal political rights with adults is required by the basic logic of democracy and can help strengthen the weak democracies of the twenty-first century. A good start is for governments to honor their obligations under the ambivalently utopian UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Childrens political views differ from those of adults on issues such as race, sex, militarism, poverty, education, gun violence, and climate change. Young activists are now sparking change in many locations around the globe.
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Gazing In Useless Wonder - English Utopian Fictions, 15161800

by Artur Blaim

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 Gazing in Useless Wonder analyses the genre pattern of utopian fiction as it emerged in the Renaissance, focusing on utopias as self-referential texts that literally have to constitute themselves as imaginary or intentional entities before they can work as vehicles for socio-political ideas.
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Partial Visions - Feminism And Utopianism In The 1970s

by Angelika Bammer

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 What would a good world for women look like? How would we get there from where we are and how would we have to change ourselves in the process? This book examines a critical moment in recent American and western European history when the utopian dimension of political movements was particularly generative and feminism was at their core. The imaginative literature that emerged out of American, French, and German feminisms of the 1970s engaged the dialectic between the actual and the possible in radically new and creative ways. Ranging from conventional utopian and science fictions to avant-garde and experimental texts, they countered the idea of utopia as a pre-set goal with the idea of the utopian as a process of «dreaming forwards.» This book explores the transformative potential of feminist visions of change, even as it sees their ideological blind spots. It does more than simply look back to the 1970s. Instead, it looks ahead, anticipating some of the shifts and changes of feminist thought in the following decades: its transnational scope, its critique of identity politics and the gendered politics of sexuality, and its embrace of affect as an analytical category. The author argues that the radical utopianism of second wave feminisms has not lost its urgency. The transformations they envisioned are still our challenge, as the vital work of social change remains undone.
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Weak Messianism - Essays In Everyday Utopianism

by Michael Gardiner

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 This book is a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism in a world that has grown increasingly sceptical as to the possibility of systemic socio-political transformation in a positive direction.
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Hispanic Utopias - A Historical Reader

by Emilio J. Gallardo-Saborido, Hugo Garcia e Juan Pro

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 This reader traces utopian writing in the main Hispanic languages since the mid-16th century. It explains and illustrates how Moreâ€™s concept was immediately imported and consolidated as a language of social criticism during Spainâ€™s Golden Age.
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Thinking Through High-Tech Hell - A Theory Of The New Media Dystopia

by Miguel Sebastián-Martín

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 «New media determine our dystopian situation. Miguel Sebastián-Martín maps the new media hell. Read this book to understand how SF reproduces our dystopian present and to find the cracks where the light gets in.» (J. Jesse Ramírez, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences) «In Thinking through High-Tech Hell, Miguel Sebastián-Martín defines a dystopian structure of feeling among SF and new media that, contrary to much recent theorizing, is ambivalent about its sense of dystopianness. Through a series of textual examples, Sebastián-Martín demonstrates how the dystopian structure of feeling both critiques and embraces the current neoliberal capitalist state of technology and new media. The book is impressively researched and thoughtfully written, moving easily from broad theoretical/philosophical discussions to pinpoint analysis, making it a relevant new contribution to new media studies and SF research.» (Liz W. Faber, Assistant Professor of English and Communication, Dean College) Examining a cluster of British and Anglo-American series from the 2010s, this book theorizes them and, indirectly, the epochal reality that they represent as «new media dystopias.» With this term, the author conceptualizes an emergent sub-genre of audio-visual SF which is thematically concerned with the worst effects of developments in media technologies under digital capitalism and is, ironically, produced for and distributed through digital-capitalist platforms. Across the books chapters, the new media dystopia is approached as an epochal structure of feeling, as a narratively reflexive sub-genre, as an aesthetically ambivalent form, and as a locale for a new kind of quixotism. Combining these perspectives, the books interest lies in gauging the ways and the extent to which these dystopias contribute to the historical hopelessness that seems to define the terms of our relationship with new media technologies as well as our position within and towards contemporary capitalism.
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The Obsolete Necessity - America In Utopian Writings, 18881900

by Ken Roemer

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 The Obsolete Necessity greatly expanded the canon of utopias during their Golden Era. Roemer examines insights offered about American attitudes ranging from equality and technology to gender and religion. The new Introduction incorporates insights from an expanded canon and concludes with speculations about creating "influential" scholarship.
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The Polyphony Of Utopia - Critical Negativities Across Cultures From Bellamy And Bogdanov To Yefremov, Piercy And Butler

by Pavla Vesela

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 Building on the notion of 'critical utopia' and elaborating on interpretations of literary works as contradictory and incomplete, the book analyses selected utopian and dystopian novels by five writers: Edward Bellamy, Alexander Bogdanov, Ivan Yefremov, Marge Piercy and Octavia E. Butler.
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Zone Theory - Science Fiction And Utopia In The Space Of Possible Worlds

by Alexander Popov

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 «This book elaborates a structure for the general family of utopian genres with marvelous clarity, and with it established, Popov can pursue all kinds of further insights about the relationships between these texts. As the worlds situation becomes more desperate, and the need for a new political economy more obvious, this complicated canon is becoming increasingly important: no longer just a minor literary genre, but rather a crucial aid to thinking about our social systems. The better we understand utopian narrative strategies, the more fully we can put them to use, so Popovs excellent study is timely and interesting.» (Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy and The Ministry for the Future) «Alexander Popovs Zone Theory deftly guides us through the thickets of utopian theory and shows us why we should care, with fresh and convincing readings of a variety of science fictional texts. The writers explored here range from the usual suspectsLe Guin, Delany, Kim Stanley Robinsonto some not usually classed as utopian or dystopian, such as John Crowley and Brooke Bolander. Popov builds on the work of Tom Moylan and Fredric Jameson while adding important perspectives such as considering utopia as a hyperobject and using utopian theory to read the incongruous, unresolvable Zones of science fiction such as the Strugatskys Roadside Picnic and Jeff VanderMeers Southern Reach trilogy. I am happy to do as Popov suggests: to read utopias not only as ongoing processes rather than finished blueprints, as Moylan has taught us, but also to see them as a way of learning about the world. Utopia, says Popov, is "an apparatus for registering difference at the level of societal organization" and thus is always open to new discoveries and new antinomies: anti-utopias lead to anti-anti-utopias and so on without end.» (Brian Attebery, Emeritus Professor of English and Philosophy at Idaho State University, author of Stories about Stories: Fantasy & the Remaking of Myth) Zone Theory reinterprets utopia as an unceasing dialectic between totality and novelty which keeps on discovering new subjectivities and genres. Through close readings within a wide corpus of SF works, it meditates on utopian forms such as critical utopia, critical dystopia, heterotopia, atopia and ecotopia, ultimately tying them to the notion of anti-anti-utopia: a form of forms capacious enough to house a permanently open multiplicity of beings.
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Postcategorical Utopia - James Baldwin And The Political Unconscious Of Imagined Futures

by Pekka Kilpelainen

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 This book examines the dialectic of ideology and utopia in three novels by James Baldwin.
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The English Utopia

by A.L. Morton

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 The English Utopia remains provocative and critically engaging more than seventy years after its original publication. This edition brings to light Mortonâ€™s complex role as Left political activist, historian, scholarly catalyst and cultural criticâ€"a paradigmatic instance of the engaged and public intellectual.
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Zone Theory - Science Fiction And Utopia In The Space Of Possible Worlds

by Alexander Popov

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 Zone Theory develops an approach to the study of utopia that expands its definition and its application in the field of science fiction studies
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The Rebirth Of Utopia In 21st-Century Cinema - Cosmopolitan Hopes In The Films Of Globalization

by Monica Martin

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 «Given that most scholarship on cinema and utopia focuses on the subgenre of dystopia and its pessimistic discourses, Mónica Martíns volume could not be more timely. It is a pioneering work; arguably the first book in English devoted to systematically analysing the utopian impulse as a textual feature in contemporary Anglophone cinema. Discussing a wide range of films, from mainstream blockbusters to independent, low-budget productions, this is a fascinating comparative study on the potential for cinema to engage with the phenomenon of social dreaming and the search for a better society. This is not only a theoretical intervention, but a political one.» (Mariano Paz, University of Limerick) Thinking across the boundaries of utopian studies, film studies, and the sociology of globalisation, this book argues that 21st-century cinema illustrates the rebirth of utopia as an open method grounded in cosmopolitan worldviews and aspirations. Rather than negating hope, promoting a fixed agenda, or depicting an exemplary status quo, contemporary movies such as Children of Men, The East, and The Hunger Games series articulate a cosmopolitan utopianism that vindicates egalitarian and sustainable futures. Re-inscribing the utopian within the political, many 21st-century films challenge existing geopolitical borders and the social barriers imposed by class, gender, race, sexuality, and birthplace. Ecocritical film spaces, caring protagonists, non-mainstream survivors, ecofeminist leaders, and cooperative networks prompt spectators to develop integrating dialogical imaginaries that contest patriarchal traditions, ecocidal progress, and neoliberal definitions of the global. Contemporary with climate change, economic recession, and global social movements, the films explored in this book re-stage utopia as a cosmopolitan method of critical resistance and transformative actiona process in the making that evokes a fairer world to be as much as it speaks of a world that is: one in which global interdependence has shaped not only risks, hostilities, and inequalities, but also inclusive horizons, holistic thinking, intersectional activism, and nurturing affects for others that have become part of us.
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Rethinking Utopia And Utopianism - The Three Faces Of Utopianism Revisited And Other Essays

by Lyman Tower Sargent

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 The book is a collection of articles written by the author on utopianism - especially on utopian literature, utopian practice, and utopian social theory
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American Nightmares - Dystopia In Twenty-First-Century Us Fiction

by Valentina Romanzi

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 Investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction using a methodological framework based on sociology, and theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a renewed interest in dystopian worlds.
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American Nightmares - Dystopia In Twenty-First-Century Us Fiction

by Valentina Romanzi

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 Investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction using a methodological framework based on sociology, and theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a renewed interest in dystopian worlds.
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Children'S Voices In Politics

by Michael S. Cummings

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Parables Of Freedom And Narrative Logics - Positions And Presuppositions In Science Fiction And Utopianism

by Darko Suvin

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 This major two-volume collection presents Darko Suvinâ€™s critical meditations on science fiction and utopia from the late 1960s through the early years of the new millennium.
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