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The Revival of Political Imagination

Utopia as Methodology

Teppo Eskelinen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2022
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78699-960-3 (ISBN)
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Analyses the function of utopias and utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces, to develop utopias as methodology.
The Revival of Political Imagination offers a unique examination of the methodological aspects of utopia. Discussing utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces - rather than in terms of its content - this volume analyses the function of utopias, to develop utopias as methodology and to show how instrumental utopian modes of thought can be in such diverse fields such as education, labour, and housing.
Including discussions of traditional and contemporary utopias, as well as various forms of expression of utopian hope, from literature to social science and cultural practices, The Revival of Political Imagination is both analytical and practical in its elucidation of how political theory can function to foster our imaginative skills.

Teppo Eskelinen is Senior lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä. A philosopher, Eskelinen has also worked as a lecturer in social and public policy. His research interests include political economy and global justice broadly understood, and he has also done research on radical democracy, classics of heterodox economics and economic alternatives.

Part I: Diagnosis
1. Introduction: Utopias and the revival of imagination (Teppo Eskelinen, Keijo Lakkala and Maria Laakso)
2. Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present (Keijo Lakkala)
3. The Privatisation and Recollectivisation of Hope (Teppo Eskelinen, Keijo Lakkala and Miikka Pyykkönen)
Part II: Case Studies and Utopian Methodologies
4. Quilombist Utopias: An Ethnographic Reflection (Inkeri Aula)
5. Social Dreaming and Uses of Narrativity, Tellability and Experientiality in Literary Dystopia (Maria Laakso)
6. Utopian Education – May the Hope Be With You (Olli-Pekka Moisio and Matti Rautiainen)
Part III: Perspectives on Utopias
7. The Significance of Humour and Laughter for Utopian Thought (Jarno Hietalahti)
8. Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible (Aleksi Lohtaja)
9. Democracy as Utopia: On Locating Radical Roots (Teppo Eskelinen)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.1.2022
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-78699-960-9 / 1786999609
ISBN-13 978-1-78699-960-3 / 9781786999603
Zustand Neuware
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