The Revival of Political Imagination

Utopia as Methodology

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4994-5 (ISBN)

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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, Finland. 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
2. Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present
3. The Privatisation and Recollectivisation of Hope

Part II: Case Studies and Utopian Methodologies
4. Quilombist Utopias: An Ethnographic Reflection
5. Social Dreaming and Uses of Narrativity, Tellability and Experientiality in Literary Dystopia
6. Utopian Education – May the Hope Be With You

Part III: Perspectives on Utopias
7. The Significance of Humour and Laughter for Utopian Thought
8. Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible
9. Democracy as Utopia: On Locating Radical Roots

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2022
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-7556-4994-X / 075564994X
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4994-5 / 9780755649945
Zustand	Neuware