Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images....Pages 13-27
‘Globalization’ as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere....Pages 28-39
Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism?....Pages 40-50
Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary....Pages 51-67
After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness....Pages 68-81
Postsecularism: A New Global Debate....Pages 82-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
After 1989: Globalization, Normalization, and Utopia....Pages 101-116
Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market ‘Utopia’....Pages 117-136
Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude....Pages 137-155
Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy....Pages 156-175
Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks....Pages 176-189
(Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces....Pages 190-206
Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces....Pages 207-219
The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the ‘Recuperation’ of Everyday Life....Pages 220-236
Concluding Reflections....Pages 237-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-275