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Author |
: Luis Alvarez |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2022-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781477324486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1477324488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chicanx Utopias by : Luis Alvarez
Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for civil rights and global justice in the post–World War II era, Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams that sprang from everyday experiences. In Chicanx Utopias, Luis Alvarez offers a broad study of these utopian visions from the 1950s to the 2000s. Probing the film Salt of the Earth, brown-eyed soul music, sitcoms, poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he examines how Chicanx pop culture, capable of both liberation and exploitation, fostered interracial and transnational identities, engaged social movements, and produced varied utopian visions with divergent possibilities and limits. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista movement, this book reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural utopias to make sense of, challenge, and improve the worlds they inhabited.
Author |
: Donald E. Pitzer |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2010-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807898970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 080789897X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Communal Utopias by : Donald E. Pitzer
From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development--before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published. The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.
Author |
: John Carey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 531 |
Release |
: 2000-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0571203175 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780571203178 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Faber Book of Utopias by : John Carey
Utopias come in every conceivable cultural and sexual shade: communist, fascist, anarchist, green, techno-fantastic, all male, all female. John Carey's anthology encompasses many noble schemes, as well as chilling attempts at social control.
Author |
: Jennifer L. Allen |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2022-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674249141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674249143 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sustainable Utopias by : Jennifer L. Allen
To reclaim a sense of hope for the future, German activists in the late twentieth century engaged ordinary citizens in innovative projects that resisted alienation and disenfranchisement. By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense of crisis after the 1973 global oil shock appeared to doom dreams of a better world. The eventual victory of capitalism and, seemingly, liberal democracy relieved some fears but exchanged them for complacency and cynicism. Not, however, in West Germany. Jennifer Allen showcases grassroots activism of the 1980s and 1990s that envisioned a radically different society based on community-centered politicsÑa society in which the democratization of culture and power ameliorated alienation and resisted the impotence of end-of-history narratives. BerlinÕs History Workshop liberated research from university confines by providing opportunities for ordinary people to write and debate the story of the nation. The Green Party made the politics of direct democracy central to its program. Artists changed the way people viewed and acted in public spaces by installing objects in unexpected environments, including the Stolpersteine: paving stones, embedded in residential sidewalks, bearing the names of Nazi victims. These activists went beyond just trafficking in ideas. They forged new infrastructures, spaces, and behaviors that gave everyday people real agency in their communities. Undergirding this activism was the environmentalist concept of sustainability, which demanded that any alternative to existing society be both enduring and adaptable. A rigorous but inspiring tale of hope in action, Sustainable Utopias makes the case that it is still worth believing in human creativity and the labor of citizenship.
Author |
: Erik Olin Wright |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 536 |
Release |
: 2020-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789601459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789601452 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Envisioning Real Utopias by : Erik Olin Wright
Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is utopian. Erik Olin Wright's major new work is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. A systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors, Envisioning Real Utopias lays the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging, this will become a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Amanda J. Lucia |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2020-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520376953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520376951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis White Utopias by : Amanda J. Lucia
Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for “spiritual, but not religious” (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga’s role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.
Author |
: Paul Berman |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393316750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393316759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tale Of Two Utopias by : Paul Berman
Political journalist Paul Berman recounts four episodes in the history of a generation: student radicalism of the years around 1968; the birth of gay liberation and modern identity politics; the anti-Communist trajectory in the Eastern bloc; and the ideals and self-criticism of thinkers in America and in France, who debated the meaning of these events. A "New York Times" Notable Book.
Author |
: Robert Fishman |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2008-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786722846 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786722843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bourgeois Utopias by : Robert Fishman
A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.
Author |
: J. C. Davis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 1983-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521275512 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521275514 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopia and the Ideal Society by : J. C. Davis
This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.
Author |
: Alessa Johns |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0252028414 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252028410 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century by : Alessa Johns
No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.