Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age......Page 14
Part I: Globalization and Utopianism: Theoretical Connections......Page 24
1 Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images......Page 26
2 ‘Globalization’ as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere......Page 41
3 Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism?......Page 53
4 Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary......Page 64
5 After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness......Page 81
6 Postsecularism: A New Global Debate......Page 95
Part II: Critical Perspectives on Utopian Visions in a Global Age......Page 112
7 After 1989: Globalization, Normalization, and Utopia......Page 114
8 Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market ‘Utopia’......Page 130
9 Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude......Page 150
10 Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy......Page 169
11 Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks......Page 189
12 (Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces......Page 203
13 Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces......Page 220
14 The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the ‘Recuperation’ of Everyday Life......Page 233
Concluding Reflections......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 256
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