1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004043830403321

Autore

Moos, Rudolf

Titolo

Environment and utopia : a synthesis / Rudolf Moos and Robert Brownstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; London : Plenum Press, 1977

ISBN

0306309858

Descrizione fisica

284 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

The Plenum social ecology series

Altri autori (Persone)

Brownstein, Robert

Disciplina

301.31

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

301.3 MOO 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001775910403321

Titolo

Biotechnology applications in beverage production / edited by Corrado Cantarelli, G. Lanzarini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Elsevier Applied Science, 1989

ISBN

1-85166-328-2

Descrizione fisica

IX, 257 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Elsevier applied food science series

Disciplina

663

Locazione

FAGBC

Collocazione

60 663 CANC 1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299796303321

Autore

Ramírez Blanco Julia

Titolo

Artistic Utopias of Revolt : Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol / / by Julia Ramírez Blanco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319714226

3319714228

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 187 p. 49 illus., 43 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Utopianism, , 2946-448X

Disciplina

940.903

Soggetti

Europe - History - 1492-

History, Modern

Cities and towns - History

World politics

Civilization - History

History of Modern Europe

Modern History

Urban History

Political History

Cultural History



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Art as Language, Utopia as Discourse -- 2. Activism as a Place: The British Anti-Roads Movement and the Squatted Street of Claremont Road -- 3. The Reclaim the Streets Protest Parties in London -- 4. Interlude: The Globalization of the Aesthetics of Protest -- 5. Disobedience as an Urban Form: The Acampadasol in Madrid -- 6. Notes Towards a Conclusion.-Chronology of Events -- Glossary -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates how dreams of a better society have manifested themselves in contexts of political confrontation, and how artistic forms have provided a language to express the collective desire for social change. The study begins with the 1993 occupation of Claremont Road in east London, an attempt to prevent the demolition of homes to make room for a new motorway. In a squatted row of houses, all available space was transformed and filled with elements that were both aesthetic and defensive - so when the authorities arrived to evict the protestors, sculptures were turned into barricades. At the end of the decade, this kind of performative celebration merged with the practices of the antiglobalisation movement, where activists staged spectacular parallel events alongside the global elite's international meetings. As this book shows, social movements try to erase the distance that separates reality and political desire, turning ordinary people into creators of utopias. Squatted houses, carnivalesque street parties, counter-summits, and camps in central squares, all create a physical place of these utopian visions.