LEADER 04853nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910459867303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-72191-7 010 $a9786612721915 010 $a1-4008-3495-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400834952 035 $a(CKB)2670000000043922 035 $a(EBL)581539 035 $a(OCoLC)671644886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000430475 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11301612 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430475 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10468037 035 $a(PQKB)11718297 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581539 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36843 035 $a(DE-B1597)446546 035 $a(OCoLC)979754663 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400834952 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581539 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10409298 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL272191 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000043922 100 $a20100319d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aUtopia/dystopia$b[electronic resource] $econditions of historical possibility /$fMichael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, and Gyan Prakash, editors 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 300 $a"Publication in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--P. facing t.p. 311 $a0-691-14697-7 311 $a0-691-14698-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time /$rGordin, Michael D. / Tilley, Helen / Prakash, Gyan --$tPART ONE. ANIMA --$t1. Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future /$rJameson, Fredric --$t2. Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier /$rWenzel, Jennifer --$t3. Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India /$rChakrabarty, Dipesh --$t4. The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization /$rWhite, Luise --$t5. Hydrocarbon Utopia /$rMitchell, Timothy --$tPART TWO. ARTIFICE --$t6. Techno- Utopian Dreams, Techno- Political Realities: The Education of Desire for the Peaceful Atom /$rKrige, John --$t7. On Cosmopolitanism, the Avant- Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Central Europe /$rShore, Marci --$t8. The Breath of the Possible: Everyday Utopianism and the Street in Modernist Urbanism /$rPinder, David --$t9. Stalinist Confessions in an Age of Terror: Messianic Times at the Leningrad Communist Universities /$rHalfin, Igal --$t10. The Heterotopias of Dalit Politics: Becoming- Subject and the Consumption Utopia Contributors /$rNigam, Aditya --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aThe concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950's, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930's served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White. 606 $aUtopias$xHistory 606 $aDystopias$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUtopias$xHistory. 615 0$aDystopias$xHistory. 676 $a335/.02 701 $aGordin$b Michael D$0480891 701 $aTilley$b Helen$f1968-$01040063 701 $aPrakash$b Gyan$f1952-$01036716 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459867303321 996 $aUtopia$92462669 997 $aUNINA