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Rethinking Utopia - Place, Power, Affect (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Utopia - Place, Power, Affect (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital
concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit,
even in - or rather because of - the condition of 'post-utopianism'
that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell
offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and
then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian
studies, a variety of 'radical' theories and the need for
decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within,
against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with
hope for a better future. He proposes paying a 'subversive
fidelity' to utopia, in which its three constituent terms: 'good'
(eu), 'place' (topos), and 'no' (ou) are rethought to assert the
importance of immanent, affective relations. The volume engages
with a variety of practices and forms to articulate such a
utopianism, including popular education/critical pedagogy; musical
improvisation; and utopian literature. The problems as well as the
possibilities of this utopianism are explored, although the
problems are often revealed to be possibilities, provided they are
subject to material challenge. Rethinking Utopia offers a way of
thinking about (and perhaps realising) utopia that helps overcome
some of the binary oppositions structuring much thinking about the
topic. It allows utopia to be thought in terms of place and
process; affirmation and negation; and the real and the not-yet. It
engages with the spatial and affective turns in the social sciences
without ever uncritically being subsumed by them; and seeks to make
connections to indigenous cosmologies. It is a cautious, careful,
critical work punctuated by both pessimism and hope; and a refusal
to accept the finality of this or any world.
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