Prefiguring Utopia

The Auroville Experiment

AvSuryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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 organization, 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:456 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529230789

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Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith is a scholar, activist and educator based in Auroville, India, the largest intentional community in the world, where she is affiliated with the Sri Aurobindo Institute of International Educational Research.

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Foreword - Bem Le Hunte1. All Life is Yoga: An IntroductionPart 1: Culture2. Auroville Is …3. A Spiritually Prefigurative Culture: The Uniqueness of Auroville’s Utopian PracticePart 2: Polis4. Divine Anarchy? The Development of the Auroville Polity5. Spiritually Prefigurative Politics in Practice: An Embodied Account of an Auroville Community Decision-Making ProcessPart 3: Economy6. 'No Exchange of Money'? The Development of Auroville’s Communal Economy7. The Institutional Potential of Prefigurative Experiments: The Evolution of Collective Accounts in Auroville8. Auroville and Beyond: The Grounded Hopes and Horizons of Spiritually Prefigurative Practice – A ConclusionAfterword - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein