| Utopian Encounters: Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias Contributor(s): Baccolini, Raffaella (Editor), Balasopoulos, Antonis (Editor), Fischer, Joachim (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1787072479 ISBN-13: 9781787072473 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $74.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 335.02 |
| LCCN: 2018029781 |
| Series: Ralahine Utopian Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (0.75 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is an experiment: an enquiry into the possibilities and potentialities of a prospective anthropology of utopia. With different ethnographic contributions studying empirical utopias across the world (from ecotopias to religious havens, transnational policies, retirement homes and community agriculture), it looks beyond the commonsense understanding of utopia as a desire, an expectation, a form of imagination stemming from Western political thought. In the process, the volume explores the dynamic dialectic between human imagination and concrete action. |