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Everyday Utopias - The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces (Paperback)
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Everyday Utopias - The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces (Paperback)
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Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways.
Instead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to
create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and
stimulating contexts for considering the terms of social life, of
how we live together and are governed. Weaving conceptual
theorizing together with social analysis, Davina Cooper examines
utopian projects as seemingly diverse as a feminist bathhouse,
state equality initiatives, community trading networks, and a
democratic school where students and staff collaborate in
governing. She draws from firsthand observations and interviews
with participants to argue that utopian projects have the potential
to revitalize progressive politics through the ways their
innovative practices incite us to rethink mainstream concepts
including property, markets, care, touch, and equality. This is no
straightforward story of success, however, but instead a tale of
the challenges concepts face as they move between being imagined,
actualized, hoped for, and struggled over. As dreaming drives new
practices and practices drive new dreams, everyday utopias reveal
how hard work, feeling, ethical dilemmas, and sometimes, failure,
bring concepts to life.
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2013 |
First published: |
December 2013 |
Authors: |
Davina Cooper
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-5569-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social theory
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LSN: |
0-8223-5569-8 |
Barcode: |
9780822355694 |
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