Everyday Utopias

The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces

Autor: Davina Cooper

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Editura: Duke University Press

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Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a better w...

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Autor

Davina Cooper

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engleză

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Publicat

2013

Pagini

296

EAN

9780822355557

ISBN

0822355558

Enbook ID

04939722

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

530

Dimensiuni

242 x 158 x 23

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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.

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