Dear All,
For those of you interested in questions of utopia, this one has just
come out:
Michael Hviid Jacobson / Keith Tester (eds): Utopia: Social Theory and
the Future, London: Ashgate 2012
Contents:
Introduction: utopia as a topic for social theory, Michael Hviid
Jacobsen and Keith Tester;
Part I Theoretical Musings:
Utopia and the end of history, Henk de Berg;
What is concrete about Ernst Bloch’s ‘concrete utopia’?, Peter Thompson;
Dreams, visions and utopias - romantic and realist revolutionaries and
the idyllic, Arpad Szakolczai;
Liquid modern ‘utopia’ – Zygmunt Bauman on the transformation of utopia,
Michael Hviid Jacobsen;
Houellebecq’s dystopia – a case of the elective affinity between
sociology and literature, Anders Petersen and Michael Hviid Jacobsen.
Part II Theories in Motion:
Utopia and criminology, Peter Young;
Utopianism, dystopianism and ecological thought, Kate Rigby;
Social movement as utopian practice, Andrew Jamison;
Virtual utopias and dystopias – the cultural imaginary of the internet,
Majid Yar;
Utopias of mobility, Ole B. Jensen and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen;
Index.
--
Henk de Berg
Department of Germanic Studies
University of Sheffield
Jessop West, room 4.09
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA
http://www.shef.ac.uk/german/staff/henkdeberg
00-44-(0)114 -222 4881 (office)
00-44-(0)114 -222 4396 (Secr.)
00-44-(0)114 -266 9211 (home)
|