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Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility (Hardcover)
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Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures
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Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis,
and through its cross-disciplinary narrative it goes beyond
existing forms of future anticipation and maps out a practice-based
approach to the creation of new realities. It explores how new
imaginaries, social experiments, and laboratories of societies can
create spaces of possibilities, revalidate the peripheries, and
create new forms of social coherence. The peripheral regions in
Europe are facing a crisis triangle: depopulation, the rise of the
'useless' class, and outdated social welfare systems. It is a
crisis of political imaginaries and a lack of inspiring political
stories. In response to this, the book specifically focuses on the
concept of 'retopia', the idea of creating inclusive spaces of
social innovation that encourage active participation. Through the
creation of relocalized societies with a high degree of autonomy in
'left-over' spaces such as Sicily, Western Latvia or Northern
Bulgaria, retopian redevelopment schemes offer new perspectives on
'ruined spaces'. Retopia uncovers the common links and limitations
of utopian studies, future studies, degrowth, narratology, the
commons, and political geography. Retopia: Creating New Spaces of
Possibility is an articulation of the potentialities of social
innovation, political imaginaries, and future images, provoking a
stimulating discussion among scholars and students in the fields of
Politics and Future and Anticipation Studies.
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