LEADER 03510oam 2200529I 450 001 9910162818703321 005 20240505190847.0 010 $a1-317-48670-6 010 $a1-315-70969-4 010 $a1-317-48671-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315709697 035 $a(CKB)3710000001033132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4790142 035 $a(OCoLC)970384248 035 $a(BIP)63342775 035 $a(BIP)52962364 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001033132 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRethinking Utopia $eplace, power, affect /$fDavid M. Bell 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (189 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge Innovations in Political Theory ;$v71 311 08$a1-138-89133-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Rethinking the present ; or, our post-Utopian, most-utopian, anti-Utopian dystopia -- 2. Rethinking contemporary Utopianism -- 3. Rethinking Utopian studies -- 4. Rethinking the good place -- 5. Rethinking the no-good place. 330 $aOver five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in - or rather because of - the condition of 'post-utopianism' that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of 'radical' theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future. He proposes paying a 'subversive fidelity' to utopia, in which its three constituent terms: 'good' (eu), 'place' (topos), and 'no' (ou) are rethought to assert the importance of immanent, affective relations. The volume engages with a variety of practices and forms to articulate such a utopianism, including popular education/critical pedagogy; musical improvisation; and utopian literature. The problems as well as the possibilities of this utopianism are explored, although the problems are often revealed to be possibilities, provided they are subject to material challenge. Rethinking Utopia offers a way of thinking about (and perhaps realising) utopia that helps overcome some of the binary oppositions structuring much thinking about the topic. It allows utopia to be thought in terms of place and process; affirmation and negation; and the real and the not-yet. It engages with the spatial and affective turns in the social sciences without ever uncritically being subsumed by them; and seeks to make connections to indigenous cosmologies. It is a cautious, careful, critical work punctuated by both pessimism and hope; and a refusal to accept the finality of this or any world. 410 0$aRoutledge innovations in political theory ;$v71. 606 $aUtopias$zUnited States 606 $aUtopias$xHistory 615 0$aUtopias 615 0$aUtopias$xHistory. 676 $a307.770973 676 $a335.02 700 $aBell$b David M.$0120828 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162818703321 996 $aRethinking Utopia$92119480 997 $aUNINA