The Revival of Political Imagination: Utopia as Methodology

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