The Revival of Political Imagination: Utopia as Methodology

Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
PART I: DIAGNOSIS
	1: Introduction: Utopias and the Revival of Imagination
		The Specificity of Absolutist Utopias
		Towards a Methodological Understanding of Utopianism
		Utopianism Facilitating Transformation
		The Purpose of This Book and the Content of the Chapters
		Notes
		References
	2: Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present
		Utopia as Critical Counter-Image of the Present
		Dynamic Utopias
		Utopian Counter-Practice: the Crack
		Cracks in Walls: Interstitial Strategy
		Conclusion
		References
	3: The Privatization and Recollectivization of Hope
		The State of Utopias: Anxiety
		Mechanisms of the Privatization of Utopias: the Subjectification, Ethos and Life-Narrative of Entrepreneurship
		Mechanisms of the Privatization of Utopias: Retrotopia and Neoliberalism
		The Role of a Social Scientist
		Conclusions
		References
PART II: CASE STUDIES AND UTOPIAN METHODOLOGIES
	4: Quilombist Utopias: An Ethnographic Reflection
		Runaway Slaves or Diversified Local Economies?
		The Method of Hope and Quilombist Knowledge
		Kilombo Tenondé: Capoeira Angola with Permaculture
		Anarchist and Afrocentric Currents in Quilombo Cecília
		Quilombist Hopes
		Notes
		References
	5: Social Dreaming and Uses of Narrativity, Tellability and Experientiality in Literary Dystopia
		Literary Dystopia as a Contemporary Form of Utopian Thinking
		The Handmaid’s Tale: ‘A Canary in the Coal Mine’?
		‘What I Need Is a Perspective’: Dystopia against the Normal and Everyday
		Writing and Reading Literary Dystopia as an ‘Act of Hope’
		Conclusions
		Note
		References
	6: Utopian Education: May the Hope Be with You
		Forward Dawning
		From Utopian Pedagogy Came Forward Movement
		From Despair to Hope: Utopian Education in Practice
		Dynamic Connection of Hope and Despair
		References
PART III: PERSPECTIVES ON UTOPIAS
	7: The Significance of Humor and Laughter for
Utopian Thought
		Laughing at Utopia
		Laughing with Utopia
		Laughing in Utopia
		Endgame
		Notes
		References
	8: Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting
with the (Im)Possible
		Modernist Architecture as a Degenerate Utopia?
		Utopia Turned Ideology
		From Abstract Utopianism to Experimental Utopias
		Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible
		Notes
		References
	9: Democracy as Utopia: On Locating Radical Roots
		Limited Utopian Concepts
		Utopian Democracy
		Hegemonic Democracy as a Hybrid Form
		Limitations to Democratic Politics
		The Implications of Liberalism
		Open Future and the Significance of Imagination
		Saving the Utopian Potential of Concepts and Ways Forward
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Index