Prefiguring Utopia - The Auroville Experiment

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide. This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville’s founding spiritual and societal ideals are engaged in its communal political and economic organisation, as well as various cultural practices and what enables and sustains this prefiguratively utopian practice. This in-depth, autoethnographic case study is an important resource for understanding prefigurative and utopian experiments – their challenges, potentialities and significance for the advancement of human society.

General

Imprint:	Bristol University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-5292-3078-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-5292-3078-0
Barcode:	9781529230789

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