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Is it possible to create a different and better world? This innovative volume explores debates about the demise of utopia at the end of the twentieth century, and examines the potential renewal of political imagination and the utopian impulse today. The discussion is set in an enlarged and enriched frame that situates utopianism in relation to the complexities and challenges of globalization. Critically investigating many of the unacknowledged assumptions about the inevitability of our current social and political experiences, and this collection considers questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change. It explores the range of political responses that utopian actors have available in light of globalization - ranging from 'everyday life' to global politics, from anti-consumerism to cyber-utopianism. This book makes a timely contribution to considering the challenge of imagining a different and better way of living in a global age.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reflections on the Demise and Renewal of Utopia in a Global Age; P.Hayden & C.el-Ojeili PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND UTOPIANISM: THEORETICAL CONNECTIONS Placing Utopia: Some Classical Images; P.Beilharz & C.Ellem 'Globalization' as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere; J.C.Alexander Two Post-Marxisms: Beyond Post-Socialism?; C.el-Ojeili Globalization, Reflexive Utopianism, and the Cosmopolitan Social Imaginary; P.Hayden After Utopia: Notes on an Ethics of Newness; L.Gandhi Postsecularism: A New Global Debate; G.McLennan PART II: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON UTOPIAN VISIONS IN A GLOBAL AGE After 1989: Globalization, Normalization and Utopia; L.Ray Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market 'Utopia'; B.Smart Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitude; A.Adib-Moghaddam Utopias Without Transcendence? Post-Left Anarchy, Immediacy and Utopian Energy; A.Robinson & S.Tormey Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networks; L.Dahlberg (Con)Temporary Utopian Spaces; G.Curran Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spaces; R.Munck The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the 'Recuperation' of Everyday Life; M.Gardiner Concluding Reflections; P.Hayden & C.el-Ojeili Bibliography

About the Author :
PATRICK HAYDEN is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Evil in a Global Age, Cosmopolitan Global Politics, and co-author with Chamsy el-Ojeili, of Critical Theories of Globalization. CHAMSY EL-OJEILI is Lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of From Left Communism to Post-Modernism: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse, co-author with Patrick Hayden of Critical Theories of Globalization, and co-editor of Confronting Globalization.

Review :
"An excellent collection by truly serious authors on an subject hitherto ignored." - Charles Lemert, Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University, USA "This collection of essays places the concept of utopia firmly at the centre of a critical understanding of the idea and process of globalization. More, it shows how the idea of utopia is central to critical social theory. It not only deserves, but needs, to be widely read." - Ruth Levitas, Professor of Sociology, Bristol University, UK "The imaginative essays compiled in this bold study attest to the vitality of critical utopianism in the global age. Wide-ranging yet admirably focused, this collection makes an important contribution to the new transdisciplinary field of global studies." - Manfred Steger, Professor of Global Studies and Director of Globalism Research Centre Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia


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  • ISBN-13: 9780230233607
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Height: 223 mm
  • Sub Title: Critical Essays
  • ISBN-10: 0230233600
  • Publisher Date: 12 Mar 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Width: 142 mm


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