Books+ Search Results
Globalization and utopia : critical essays
Title
Globalization and utopia : critical essays / edited by Patrick Hayden, Chamsy el-Ojeili.
ISBN
9780230233607
0230233600
9780230203594
0230203590
9781349301423
1349301426
Published
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (xi, 275 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Is it possible to create a different and better world? This innovative volume explores debates about the demise of utopia at the end of the twentieth century, and examines the potential renewal of political imagination and the utopian impulse today. The discussion is set in an enlarged and enriched frame that situates utopianism in relation to the complexities and challenges of globalization. Critically investigating many of the unacknowledged assumptions about the inevitability of our current social and political experiences, and this collection considers questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change. It explores the range of political responses that utopian actors have available in light of globalization - ranging from 'everyday life' to global politics, from anti-consumerism to cyber-utopianism. This book makes a timely contribution to considering the challenge of imagining a different and better way of living in a global age.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave social & cultural studies collection 2009.
Other formats
Print version: Globalization and utopia. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age / P. Hayden and C.el-Ojeili
Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images / P. Beilharz, C. Ellem
Globalization as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere / J.C. Alexander
Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism? / C.el-Ojeili
Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary / P. Hayden
After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness / L. Gandhi
Postsecularism: A New Global Debate / G. McLennan
After 1989: Globalization, Normalization and Utopia / L. Ray
Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market Utopia / B. Smart
Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude / A. Adib-Moghaddam
Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy / A. Robinson, S. Tormey
Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks / L. Dahlberg
(Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces / G. Curran
Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces / R. Munck
The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the Recuperation of Everyday Life / M. Gardiner
Concluding Reflections/ P. Hayden, C.el-Ojeili
Bibliography.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
