Revival of Political Imagination

Utopia as Methodology

AvTeppo Eskelinen

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-23
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:1
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786999580
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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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.

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'A valuable contribution to contemporary scholarly debates in both Utopian Studies and the social sciences more broadly. Its individual case studies provide a wide-ranging and engaging exploration of the contemporary relevance of the “imaginative skill” of utopian dreaming as a means of facilitating social transformation.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Diagnosis1. Introduction: Utopias and the revival of imagination2. Disruptive Utopianism: Opening the Present3. The Privatisation and Recollectivisation of HopePart II: Case Studies and Utopian Methodologies4. Quilombist Utopias: An Ethnographic Reflection5. Social Dreaming and Uses of Narrativity, Tellability and Experientiality in Literary Dystopia6. Utopian Education – May the Hope Be With YouPart III: Perspectives on Utopias7. The Significance of Humour and Laughter for Utopian Thought8. Architectural Utopias as Methods for Experimenting with the (Im)Possible9. Democracy as Utopia: On Locating Radical Roots