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Fool's Gold?: Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century

Fool's Gold?: Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century


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About the Book

What's wrong with the world today and how might it become better (or worse)? These are the questions pursued in this book, which explores the hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares of the 21st century. Drawing on examples from architecture, fiction, theory, film and experiments with everyday life, Sargisson explores contemporary hopes and fears about religion, gender, sex, the environment and new technologies. The book asks, is the search for utopia a quest for Fools' Gold? Its answer is 'yes' and 'no' and Sargisson identifies a number of different kinds of utopian impulse. Some utopias offer blueprints for the perfect world. Others are experiments in process. Some utopianism is dangerous, even toxic. Some utopianism is playful and fun. Some utopianism seeks actively to change the world. This book teases out examples of these and other types of utopianism which both shape and reflect our world today.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Fool's Gold Definitions, Debates and Conflicts Religious Fundamentalism Feminism and Gender Sex and Sexual Identity Climate Change and Catastrophe Human Attitudes to Nature Green Intentional Communities Fantastic Architecture: Dubai Domestic Architecture: New Urbanism and Cohousing Computer Gaming Cloning, Cyborgs and Robots Conclusions Notes Appendi List of Primary Sources Bibliography

About the Author :
LUCY SARGISSON Associate Professor in Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK. This is her fourth book, and she is also the author of Contemporary Feminist Utopianism (1996), Utopian Bodies and the Politics of Transgression (2000) and Living in Utopia: New Zealand's Intentional Communities (with Sargent, 2004).

Review :
'Sargisson's Fool's Gold? endorses utopia as a continuing vehicle of social hope. Written with great clarity, it steers a confident course through complex theoretical debates. It then offers a fascinating exposition of utopian currents in the contemporary world, ranging across religion, politics, literature, the prefigurative practices of architecture and intentional communites, and the virtual worlds of computer gaming. It is essential reading for anyone who thinks that utopia is dead, as well as those who know or hope it is not.' Professor Ruth Levitas, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol 'Fool's Gold? is a delight. It traverses complex moral territory, connects all sorts of disparate strands of contemporary thought, reveals the richness of both literary and experiential utopias, and provides an authoritative framework within which we can all re-evaluate our own ideas about utopia. For me, Lucy Sargisson succeeds in rehabilitating Utopianism as 'dangerous, but necessary' social phenomenon, not least as an antidote to today's paralysing fatalism that would have us believe that there are no alternatives to today's reckless, planet-trashing capitalism.' Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future 'This is a really exceptional book, just what we need. It brings together a wide variety of 21st century expressions of utopianism, including things like architecture, religious fundamentalism, the new urbanism, and computer games, along with the usual utopian literature and intentional communities, and puts this material together with with political theory, ecological and sociological analysis, field work in intentional communities, etc., etc. It is consistently readable and interesting.' Lyman Tower Sargent, Professior Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri- St. Louis.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781137031075
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sub Title: Utopianism in the Twenty-First Century
  • ISBN-10: 1137031077
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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